"A country can put up with laws that are harsh or unjust, so long as they are administered by just judge who can mitigate their harshness or alleviate their unfairness." - Lord Denning. *** General Lekwot to Justice Okadigbo: "The same government that established this court to investigate the truth, apportion blame and award punishment, went behind the door and passed laws that have stripped the accused of their rights of fair defense, meaning that a decision to eliminate us was taken somewhere outside of this court. What worries me, and I speak for others, is the insincerity in the whole exercise. During the first trial, I called all my witnesses and when government discovered I was not going to be jailed, I was discharged and not acquitted. It was you also who directed the police to re-arrest me and more changes were brought out. How can you convince me that good faith is what this trial is all about? Everything is there in your record. As chairman of this Tribunal, you do not only owe us a duty to doing your job properly, you owe us a duty to let layman understand the implication of some pronouncements. My Lord, like I said before, this is your parade, I take orders from you, what you tell to do. As the president of this Tribunal, I will give the Tribunal the respect by obeying the orders. Obeying orders has been my professional duties for years. I cannot as a layman, without knowing the legal implication, start taking decisions. As far as General Lekwot is concerned, this Tribunal knows everything about my defense because I spelt it out in the first trial. If in addition to that, you still want me to get into the box as a formality so that you can do what you were sent here to do. I leave the discretion to you." Justice Okadigbo: "Withdraw that statement. I give you just one minute to do that".Lekwot: "To withdraw what?" Okadigbo: "Withdraw what you have just said." Lekwot: "What did I say?" Okadigbo:"To do what you were sent here to do" Lekwot:"I am forced to say that because of what I saw from the beginning of this trial. Hostility and intimidation of us and our lawyer. But if you force me to withdraw it, I will, but that is my impression". Read more thought-provoking episodes in this book of the macabre drama of travesty of justice, where the judge exhibited patent and unabashed bias, leading him to passing the death sentences on the defendants.