The audacious appointment of the Chief Justice of Nigeria's own son to a Federal High Court judgeship strikes at the heart of judicial integrity, severely eroding our faith in the bedrock of our legal system. This egregious abuse of power is not an isolated incident but rather a symptom of a widespread disease infecting our legal institutions, corroding the very essence of fairness and impartiality.
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Yet this has become the rule not the exception. The result is that Nigeria’s judiciary now suffers a terminal credibility deficit that endangers civilized dispute resolution to the point of making vigilantism highly profitable. The Council of Foreign Relations validates this causality between “public mistrust of the police and the judicial system” on the one hand and what it calls Nigeria’s “epidemic of lawlessness” on the other.
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