After today’s (20th March) morning session, the judge gave his second summary in briefing the 12 members of the jury. The jury retired in their concave to deliberate and return their verdict of either guilty or not guilty. This is expected in a matter of minutes. It is a waiting game.

The situation in the courtroom is awry and circumspect for Senator Ike Ekweremadu, the wife Beatrice and Sonia their daughter.

The master planner, Dr. Obinna Obeta is also facing the uneasy calm.

May will make it one year when this kidney and human trafficking charge ensued.

The sustaining lesson, in this case lies in the urgency and expediency of the court in dispensing this landmark case unlike in Nigeria.

Harry Fanon is a philosopher and a jurisprudence attorney writing from his Ahiazu Cave.