By Reuben Abati
It is not often that cases before a court of law become so important that they get discussed in beer parlours, open places, other rooms and generate so much public attention beyond the court room, even after judgment has been delivered by a court of competent jurisdiction. But it happens, presenting, relative to context, the spectacle of concurrence and/or populism or a conflict between the court of law and the court of public opinion. This in itself is a reaffirmation of the role of the judicial system as a social modulator, beyond strict positivism, rather than a derogation from the relevance of the judiciary. Such cases are known in legal circles as “cause celebre” either for the attendant popularity and public interest or the precedence that they establish. Nigeria found itself confronted with such a case recently with the decision taken by the Court of Justice Taiwo Taiwo (Federal High Court, Abuja) in the matter between Oluwakemi Adeosun, former Minister of
NYSC and the Kemi Adeosun case, By Reuben Abati
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NYSC And The Kemi Adeosun Case By Reuben Abati
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Last Thursday, Arise TV‘s Morning Show hosts, Reuben Abati, Tundun Abiola, and Rufai Oseni interviewed Inibehe Effiong, a human rights lawyer, and Dele Ogun, a lawyer and ‘brother’ of Nigeria’s former finance minister, Kemi Adeosun, on the ruling of the Federal High Court, Abuja. The court held that Mrs Adeosun did not breach any law by being appointed a minister in 2015 without participating in the National Youth Service Corps scheme. Below is the interview as transcribed by PREMIUM TIMES’ Ifeoluwa Adeniran.
Reuben Abati: What are the big issues in this matter with regards to what looks like the vindication of former minister of finance, Kemi Adeosun, and then with regards also to the relevant provision of the 1979 Constitution, the 1999 Constitution, and also, I think Section 13(2) of the NYSC Act?