ASABA/Nigeria: The Delta State Judiciary has debunked the unsubstantiated allegation of child trafficking and illegal adoption of children in the State levelled against the State Chief Judge, Justice Marshal Umukoro by one Mr Ighorhiohwunu Aghogho and his collaborators.
Making clarifications in Asaba, on the issue the Head of Protocol and Public Relations, High Court of Justice, Delta State, Mr Agbaragu Timothy said the recent series of defamatory on-line publications by Mr Aghogho, a proprietor of Explosive Academy, Abraka, was calculated to smear the good image and reputation of the State Chief Judge.
Reacting to barrage of unguided, unconscionable, and propaganda of calumny in the social media by Mr Aghogho, Mr Agbaragu disclosed that Mr Aghogho whose license to operate an orphanage ‘Explosive Academy’ Abraka, was revoked by the Delta State Ministry of Women Affairs, Community and Social Development, for breach of terms and other irregularities, had on several occasions written countless frivolous petitions in the past against the person and office of the Chief Judge to the National Judicial Council (NJC), Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC) and other several entities, but which outcome of investigations had always exonerated the Chief Judge.
He described Aghogho’s unprovoked campaign of calumny as evidence of frustration, suspected depression, even as he urged the public to discountenance such cheap blackmail coming from a reactionist whose stuck in trade was vitriolic attack on public office holders for cheap popularity.
Mr Agbaragu said that the Chief Judge who would have dismissed such unprovoked and unbridled defamatory assault against his person and office as a inconsequential handwork of idle mind, posited that, as somebody who holds such esteemed office on public trust, considered it pertinent to inform unsuspecting members of the general public that there was no iota of truth whatsoever in the allegations made by Mr Aghogho and his cohorts.
He explained that as the number one Judicial Officer of the State and a symbol of justice, who have sworn to judicial oath to dispense justice to all, including children, the Chief Judge saddled with the constitutional responsibility to defend rights of children has done the needful by constituting Family Courts in all the senatorial districts of the State in order to protect rights and privileges of children.
Mr Agbaragu, therefore, advised Mr Aghogho to desist from his ignoble and unwarranted campaign of calumny against the person and office of the State Chief Judge, and engage in endeavours that would bring benefits to himself, children and society at large.
