The Chief Judge of the FCT High Court, Justice Ishaq Bello, has
warned that insulting the judiciary, calling judges names and
aligning them with any political group is wrong and a dangerous
precedent.
Bello, who gave the warning yesterday in his address at the
ceremonial court session for the commencement of the 2019/2020
legal year of the FCT judiciary, said it was regrettable that most
of the criticism of the country’s judiciary were bare insults
instead of them being constructive.
He said: “If anyone is dissatisfied with a decision of the
court, they must follow due process provided by the hierarchical
structure of our court system. We operate a self- cleansing
institution where judicial decisions are subject to scrutiny and
correction beginning from the lower courts to the highest; the
Supreme Court.
“It is therefore very mischievous for anyone to discolour the
Court’s reputation and bring it into disrepute through unfair,
biased and oftentimes prejudiced denigration.”
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