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Retiring Kogi CJ
hits out at detractors
From: Adama John, Lokoja_________________________________________________________________
Kogi State Governor, Alhaji Ibrahim Idris has called on the
judiciary to be unwavering in insisting on strict compliance with
the rule of law.
Governor Idris made the remark over the weekend in Lokoja at the
pulling out ceremony of the Chief Judge of the state, Justice Umaru
Eri.
According to him, judges should be courageous enough to uphold
uprightness as they discharge their duty.
Judges, he said, must thrive to avoid partisan politics and be
arbiters instead to enable them nurture democracy in the country to
its fullest.
He described the retiring chief judge as “a man that is vast in
knowledge of law,” saying that the vacuum he had created would be
difficult to fill in the distant future.
He however assured Justice Eri that his services, as an experienced
justice, might be required whenever the need arose.
In his speech, Justice Eri thanked the people of Kwara and Benue
states for preparing him for the arduous task of becoming the number
one man in the judiciary of the state.
He said that his 37 years of meritorious service to his fatherland
had been eventful..
He however, lamented that at the tail end of his “career some
miscreants” attempted to soil his hard earned reputation.
He described those people who were reaping from where they did not
sow as “job seekers, busy bodies, blackmailers and empty
wheelbarrows who seek self aggrandizement”.
Meanwhile, an acting chief judge has been appointed. He is justice
Samuel Kehinde Ottah.
Governor Idris who approved the appointment in a press release
issued by Chief Press Secretary Mr. Richard Elesho said that he was
exercising the powers conferred on him by section 271 (s) of the
Constitution.
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