OKUAMA: When the court speaks, who answers?

By Akpokona Omafuaire
THERE comes a moment in the life of a nation when the question is no longer what the law says, but who will listen.
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In the troubled story of Okuama, a riverine community in Delta State, that question hangs in the air like a verdict still waiting to be understood.
A court may speak in the measured language of justice, its orders carefully written and its pronouncements entered into the record. But beyond the courtroom doors lies another world—one where families wait, communities wonder, and the meaning of justice is measured not merely in words, but also in what happens next. When the court speaks, who answers?
The question is simple. Its impli...