Devil Advocacy against the Chief Judge of Nigeria

Back during my University days, there was this chap who was caught cheating during his one of his final year examinations at law school. He was immediately rusticated and will never be able to practice law, or more accurately go to law school ever again. 

Sitting in judgement were lecturers with legal degrees. Back then i felt the punishment was extreme, but some law students were adamant that he violated a sacred rule that only lawyers can understand, ever tried talking to lawyers, their thought processes are from Mars. 

Fast forward to the present, Nigerians are pointing fingers because a corrupt CJN with thousands or millions of dollars in his account, was kicked off the bench at the 11th hour of an election, but I ask so what.

Here is a judge collecting bribes to decide, delay and block cases while sending others to prison for stealing loafs of bread. 

Former president Jonathan expressed reservations about tackling corruption because of the judiciary. Both Atiku and Buhari have expressed a preference for extra judicial methods of getting our money back from fraudsters because of this same judiciary supervised by the likes of this corrupt Chief Judge. 

No wonder the likes of Saraki “who robbed Kwara blind” and padded the budget and made false declarations could not be convicted, in fact all the charges were eventually dismissed after proceedings were delayed, until he became a saint from the failure of the judiciary to do its job, the perception he was being victimized and the wave of anti-Buhari resentment and challenge that Saraki seemed to represent. 

When confronted with his crimes of bribery and corruption, why did the Chief Judge not resign, why is he seeking a plea and counter threatening revelations. 

Has anyone of you engaged the Nigerian legal or court system to be defending their arbitrary power, incipient laziness, and crushing incompetence. They can never find a file and will be suggesting rubbish filings when they can just understand this is Nigeria and push things through. 

Does anyone know the thousands of detainees awaiting trial because of lazy judges, refusing to expedite their briefs or just refusing to plain legislate from the bench to move things along, no, they are busy collecting allowances for coffee breaks and reading Queens English with fake British sounding accents along with grandiose pomposity. 

To all who want due process, do you know what a country like the United States would do to a corrupt judge of his stature, not only would he have been arrested and given the perp walk in handcuffs in broad day light, but many of the cases he ever judged would be subject to repeal or be thrown out. 

If we follow due process American style, he would opt out of the process immediately and would be begging for leniency or a plea deal to shorten his mandatory jail sentence. 

Cry for your democracy if you wish but don’t ask me to cry for a Chief Judge who should be a pope for the legal professor. 

Next case please but first where is my share of the dollars, I need dollars too.