All Judges
in Nigeria’s Federal Capital Territory (FCT) on Monday abandoned their various
duty posts to protest last weekend’s arrest of their colleagues in different
parts of the country on allegations of corruption.
New men,
who stormed the Magistrate court located at the Life Camp in Abuja as early as
8:00 am to cover the arraignment of the arrested judges waited endlessly as the
case neither came up nor did the judges appear.
The
judges reportedly boycotted the courtroom in solidarity with their colleagues,
and were attending a meeting at the FCT High Court in Maitamawhere a position
will be taken either to declare a total boycott of the courts or to maintain a
neutral posture in the matter.
One
of the lawyers who spoke to journalists, Princewell Ebubedike berated the
action of the judges saying it would amount to aiding and abetting corruption
in the judiciary, which is the last hope of the common man, thereby eroding
public confidence in the justice system. He condemned the manner in which the
security agents made their arrests without proper recourse to procedure.
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