The Judiciary stabilize a country and becomes the hope of the common man, particularly in democratic settings like Nigeria.
This accounts for why this third realm of the estate should strengthened and jealousy safeguarded.
Whenever the Judiciary falters, the State is in chaos as in the case of Kano and Rivers State.
A biased Judge or one with a poor interpretation of the law is akin to a Medical doctor who offers a wrong prescription to the patients or a Teacher who uses the wrong syllabus to teach the final year students who are involved in external examinations.
The case of the dethronement of one and the enthronement of another in Kano and the political upheaval in Rivers State vis a vis the intervention of the judiciary calls for proper scrutiny of the Nigeria judicial system before its imminent collapse.
Being unlearned, I will avoid the temptation of citing the law but I know that the Federal High Courts and that of the State are Courts of the same coordinate jurisdiction but with well-defined functions.
When the Judges for obvious reasons allow their interests to coincide, the outcome is a misinterpretation of the law and its disobedience as experienced in Kano State in recent times.
The consequences of disobedience of the law because of judgemental error have played out in Rivers State.
The time for the National Judicial Council and the relevant Stakeholders to intervene in the judicial rascality in Kano and Rivers State and indeed the entire country is now. Otherwise, we should be prepared for anarchy not too long from now.
Pastor Ita Udoh,
Effoi, Eket.
