The media is awash with insults, invective and repudiation hurled at the DSS and the Govt for the raid on allegedly corrupt Judicial Officers. Even the find of huge cash and documentary details of malfeasance count for nothing to the critics of the DSS and Govt.

I’m compelled to analogize with what obtains in climes truly desirous of breakup with corruption. A year ago a total 34 Judges in Ghana were rounded up for malfeasance, investigated and 20 of them sent packing. The Legal Community and the media did not cry foul or call for boycott of Courts or State Emergency knowing that judicial corruption is grievous.

As a Lawyer, I’m worried that my colleagues are taken by the legalese undermining the full picture. A corrupt, corruptive and corruptible judiciary is evil, it deepens impunity and erodes the right to justice. Where justice is for sale to the highest bidder morality atrophies, the Law suffers, and self-help festers.

Agreed that the Judiciary is an independent arm of Govt, nothing in our Laws forbid the arrest of any person for criminal investigation but the President, the Vice President, a Governor and his Deputy. I therefore advise the NBA to exercise restraint so it does not become a clog in the wheel of an effort to rid the Judiciary of corruption.

I hold without equivocation that Judicial Corruption is the worst kind of corruption, but must add that I expect the DSS, the EFCC and the Police to take similar action on the mind-blowing stench from the National Assembly, the details from Hon. Jibrin should validate such. I also expect a look into the many allegations against our Dear President’s Chief of Staff, and the Secretary to the Federal Govt., now is the time to do right.

God Bless Nigeria.

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Chris Mustapha Nwaokobia Jnr