NIGERIAN JUDICIARY AND THE ISSUE OF SUSPENDED HONOURABLE JUSTICE AYO SALAMI: POLITICAL CORRUPTION BEHIND THE SUSPENSION. JUDICIARY, IT IS SAID, IS THE LAST HOPE OF EVERY COMMON AND NON COMMON MAN. IN MY OWN CANDID ADDITIONAL SUBMISSION, I REGARD JUDICIARY AS THE LAST HOPE OF ANY OR EVERY "RATIONAL OMOSAPIENT" TO SEEK SATISFACTORY JUSTICE IN A RATIONAL AND CIVILIZED SOCIETY WITHOUT BEING MANIPULATED UNDER WHATEVER GUISE. THE QUESTIONS THAT ONE WOULD LIKE TO ASK HERE ARE: WHY SHOULD HONOURABLE JUSTICE AYO SALAMI BE SUSPENDED? WHAT HAS THIS JUDICIAL " EGG HEAD" DONE TO WARRANT THIS TREATMENT? HOW FAR HAS JUSTICE BEEN DISPENSED CONCERNING HIS CASE? IS THIS NOT A POLITICAL CORRUPTION? WHY IS IT THAT BEST BRIAN AND HONEST AND INCORRUPTIBLE PERSONALITIES ARE ALWAYS A VICTIM OF POLITICAL MACHINATION IN NIGERIA? WHY DO WE ALWAYS HAVE A "WRONG PEG IN A RIGHT HOLE" IN THIS COUNTRY? WHY DO WE FORGET THE PAST SO EASILY IN THIS COUNTRY? NIGERIANS ARE WATCHING WITH KEEN INTEREST ON SO MANY ISSUES THAT LOOK AS IF THEY ARE GONE. THE ISSUE OF HONOURABLE AYO SALAMI IS JUST ONE OF THEM AND MUST NOT BE SWEPT INTO THE HISTORY OF OBLIVION. WHEN THE NATIONAL JUDICIAL COUNCIL RECOMMENDED THE SUSPENSION OF JUSTICE AYO SALAMI TO THE PRESIDENCY, MR. PRESIDENT WAS VERY QUICK TO ENDORSE IT AND HORRIDLY INSTALLED AN ACTING PRESIDENT OF THE APPEAL COURT TO REPLACE HIM. BUT WHEN THE SAME BODY ASKED MR. PRESIDENT TO RE-ABSORB HIM, THE PRESIDENT IS VERY RELUCTANT TO DO SO TILL NOW. IMMEDIATELY MR. PRESIDENT ACTED TO SUSPEND HE (AYO SALAMI), FORMER GOVERNOR OF EKITI, STATE, MR. SEGUN ONI REVISITED THE ELECTION PETITION TRIBUNAL VERDICT WHICH ENDS AT APPEAL COURT, WHICH HAS NEVER BEEN DONE ELSEWHERE IN THE WORLD. THE TRUTH IS THAT, ONE COULD UNDERSTAND THE BODY LANGUAGE OF THE WHOLE SCENARIO THAT NIGERIA IS A PLACE WHERE POLITICAL CORRUPTION EASILY HAS ITS WAY. A FORMER CHIEF JUSTICE OF NIGERIA, DAHIRU MUSDAPHER ASKS PRESIDENT JONATHAN TO REINSTATE JUSTICE AYO SALAMI- HE WRITES THE PRESIDENT, SAYING "THE SUSPENDED PRESIDENT OF THE COURT OF APPEAL DID NO WRONG AND SHOULD BE REINSTATED". THE FORMER CHIEF JUSTICE WENT FURTHER TO SAY, "SALAMI DID NO WRONG DESERVING ANY PUNISHMENT, HAS SAID IN A LETTER ASKING MR. PRESIDENT JONATHAN TO REVERSE THE DECISION TAKEN UNDER FORMER CJN, ALOYSIUS KATSINA-ALU" ALSO, A COMMITEE CONSTITUTED WHICH INCLUDED A RESPECTED FORMER JUSTICE OF INTERNATIONAL COURT OF JUSTICE (ICJ), VENERABLE PRINCE BOLA AJIBOLA, EQUALLY ASKS MR PRESIDENT TO REINSTATE JUSTICE AYO SALAMI. TILL NOW, MR. PRESIDENT HAS NOT DONE ANYTHING. JUDICIARY SUPPOSE TO BE A SACRED TEMPLE WHERE JUSTICE IS DISPENSED TO THE SATISFACTION OF THE "ULTIMATE REALITY". IT IS A PLACE WHERE COSTUME OF EXCELLENCE AND QUALITY LEADERSHIP IS DEMONSTRATED, AND NOT WHERE POLITICAL CORRUPTION OF ANY KIND SHOULD BE FOUND. THANKS TO THE CURRENT LEADERSHIP UNDER THE HONOURABLE JUSTICE ALOMA- MARIAM MUKHATA WHOM WE BELIEVE WILL DO WHAT MORALITY AND ETHICS ASK HER TO DO, FOR POSTERITY TO REMEMBER HER GOOD AND BOLD STEPS.
Posted on: Mon, 12 Aug 2013 19:22:24 +0000
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