Lawyer and one of the chieftains of the Labour Party, LP, Kenneth Okonkwo has stated that despite all warnings from the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Olukayode Ariwoola and the National Judicial Council, NUJ, many judges have operated as an island on their own.
This statement was contained in a report that was published by SUNDAY SUN.
Okonkwo was speaking about the rascality in the judiciary when he made the comment. In the report that was titled, “Judicial Rascality And Implosion Of Democracy”, Kenneth Okonkwo said judges have usurped the powers of the executive and the legislature from the bench with the instrumentality of ex-parte orders.
Kenneth Okonkwo was quoted as saying that;
“Despite all warnings by the Chief Justice of Nigeria and the National Judicial Council, NJC, the judges have operated as an island on their own, interpreting the laws they made on the bench, bereft of the imprimatur of the legislature. The judges have usurped the powers of the executive, and the legislature from the bench with the instrumentality of ex-parte orders – a harmless equitable remedy that was initiated to protect innocent citizens from irreparable damage, has now become weaponized by incompetent and sometimes corrupt judges, to be destroying the rights of Nigerians and institutions with reckless abandon”..……See More
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