In a strongly worded statement, the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) has condemned what it terms ‘detestable acts of brigandage’ by hoodlums who disrupted the High Court of Justice complex in Ado Ekiti, the Ekiti State capital.
The association said that it believes the thugs were acting on instructions from some highly placed persons in Ekiti State to unleash mayhem on judicial officers and infrastructure.
It counselled further that the administration of justice can never thrive in an atmosphere where judicial officers are brazenly attacked and or intimidated in the course of carrying out their lawful duties.
The NBA warned that “if the current assault on the judges of the Ekiti State judiciary is allowed to continue, they would have lost the necessary independence that should be the bedrock of the performance of their constitutional duties.”
The NBA says it is sending a high powered fact finding team to Ekiti to investigate the facts surrounding the matter and any person, no matter how highly placed, who’s found involved in this show of shame and desecration of the courts shall surely face the full force of the law.
The Ekiti NBA branch Chairman, Mr Joseph Adewumi and the Secretary, Mr Gbemiga Adaramola, urged the Ekiti Commissioner of Police, Taiwo Lakanu, to beef up security within and outside the premises of the courts in the state.
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