Nigeria’s siamese twins of justice - Vanguard News

NO two other judges in Nigeria have stood and fought jointly for justice, including taking military dictatorship head-on, like Justices Yaya Abiodun Olatunde Jinadu and Isiaka Isola Oluwa. They believed that a judge should not only be upright and fearlessly dispense justice, but should not be answerable to administrative powers more so when there is an inherent right of appeal up to the Supreme Court.

As a judge, he was firm but even-handed and would not allow himself be pushed around by his seniors on the bench. Just one year on the bench, he was assigned what turned out to be his most famous case. It was that of rich industrialist and popular Lagos socialite, Alhaji Jimoh Isola, alias Ejigbadero. A very popular juju album had been waxed in Ejigbadero’s praise and he was etched in the popular consciousness of Lagosians and people in the Western part of the country.

Justices Oluwa and Jinadu working like a tag team in the judiciary, were a dynamo and they turned out to be the most effective defence of the judiciary when the military again seized power in 1983 and began issuing decrees ousting the jurisdiction of the courts.

However, 28 days later, Akokhia and Garba were interdicted by their parent Ministry of Internal Affairs. They viewed this as extrajudicial, especially when the High Court had set them free on the same matter. So they returned to court. While his case was pending before Justice Jinadu, Garba was sacked.

Justice Adefarasin ordered Jinadu to return the case file. When this became public, he denied any involvement and claimed Jinadu returned the file voluntarily. At this time, the latter was on a pilgrimage to Mecca and Justice Oluwa thought it was his duty to state the truth, which was that “the file was indeed withdrawn by Justice Adefarasin”.

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