The Member of Parliament for Madina who is also a lawyer has criticized the jail term handed a 33 year old preacher, Christopher Sorkpa who vandalized vehicles in Parliament.
According to him, no man in his right senses will walk to Parliament and decide to smash windows of cars because he claimed “God asked him to do so”?.
In a post on X, the member of Parliament stated that the person should have been medically examined when he was arrested to ascertain his mental state before being arraigned before court.
“A person who is not compos mentis cannot plead to an offense much less to plead guilty. This is more so when he did not have any lawyer in court”.
“I have decided to take up this matter as a public interest case because this is another failure of our justice system”, he noted.
