Like other public servants, judges in Nigeria are paid in Naira, not in Dollars, Pounds, Euro or Cedis. Judges are not Bureau De Change Operators and not permitted to engage in business adventures.
Therefore the Nigerian people with whose taxes and resources the judiciary is funded deserves to know how their Lordships came about nthe mind-blowing hand currencies found bin their homes?
The public deserves to know how their Lordships came about assets allegedly traced to them. Judges who are living above their means should be able to answer some questions from the law enforcement agencies.
Their Lordship are presumed innocent until proved guilty and they should be given fair trial and fair hearing. Instead of threatening the president, the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) should tell us what they have done about the recent brutal murder of their members in Rivers State, Mr Ken Atsuwete? Where was NBA when High Court judge was assaulted in the Open Court premises in Ekiti State by political thugs led by Gov Fayose.
Why did the NBA not declare a state of emergency on the judiciary when justice Ayo Isa Salami was humiliated and disgraced out of the Bench by the administration of GEJ despite the NJC's recommendation that he should be reinstated? What hsa the NBA done to Mr Ricky Tarfa, SAN for allegedly bribing judges? Whose interest is nthe NBA fighting for?
Records have shown that judges in other jurisdictions including the United States have been arrested, prosecuted and jailed for corruption and other Criminal Conducts. Ghana recently purged its judiciary. If this is the time to uproot the pervasive cancer of corruption in the Nigerian ujdiciary it is a welcome development and should be supported without checks and balances, the doctrine of seperation of powers is useless and unworkable.
We cannot have different standards for the rule of law, one for influential and another for the poor or one for the judges and another for the rest of us.
RPI.................Mission Rekindled.
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