CJN Moves to Save Judiciary, Summons Justices over Conflicting Court Orders

• NBA threatens to sanction erring senior membersIn obvious reaction to THISDAY lead report yesterday, the Chief Justice of Nigeria Justice Tanko Ibrahim Muhammad immediately swung into action by summoning six Chief Judges of State High Court in the country in a bid to halt the apparent decay in the judiciary, often occasioned by indiscriminate granting of court orders and injunctions by some pliable judges who have by their dishonourable conduct brought the Bench to disrepute.

THISDAY gathered that the CJN complained bitterly on the huge embarrassment caused the Nigerian judiciary by the actions of those who issued the conflicting orders upon ex-parte applications by some politicians. In the last two months, several orders and counter orders had been issued against the Independent National Electoral Commission , particularly, as it related to the November 6 governorship election in Anambra State.

Unlike other times that the National Judicial Council would wait for a petition from the public before investigating and disciplining any erring judge, the CJN has on his own taken the decision to look into the issue and might wield the big stick on the erring justices. The restraining order was sequel to an exparte application by a shadow organisation, the Association of Better Nigeria , led by a disqualified presidential aspirant in the person of Arthur Nzeribe, now late.

In this fourth democracy, the intervention of the court also made somebody, Rotimi Amaechi, who did not contest an election in 2007 to be governor of Rivers State. Before the suspension and return to office orders on the PDP National Chairman, Uche Secondus, by three High Courts in Rivers, Kebbi and Cross River States, former National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress , Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, was also last year before his sack by the APC National Working Committee restrained and later ordered back to office by High Courts in FCT, Abuja, Benin and Kano. Court order are now so cheap that they now worth less than the paper they are written on.

Regrettably however, nothing till date has been done to deter such apart from small fines that make no dent in the pockets of such lawyers. In a statement by its President, Mr. Olumide Akpata, the NBA chided especially, senior lawyers for the malaise, saying, “Astonishingly, that commitment is now being threatened by the conduct of some of our own members, the majority of whom are senior members of the Bar, who continue to yield themselves to be used as willing tools by politicians to wantonly abuse the judicial process.”

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