TWO Senior Advocates of Nigeria (SANs) Mike Ozekhome and Femi Falana on Tuesday disagreed over lawyers' response to the removal
TWO Senior Advocates of Nigeria Mike Ozekhome and Femi Falana on Tuesday disagreed over lawyers’ response to the removal of immediate-past Chief Justice of Nigeria Justice Walter Onnoghen.
His suspension over the charges pending trial by President Muhammadu Buhari in January, weeks before the presidential election, caused a political storm within the legal community. “One, you cannot be a judge without being a lawyer. Am I correct? You cannot be an attorney-general without also being a lawyer.
Explaining the reason for his question, he said: “We find the Bar Association blowing very mute trumpets when the judiciary is under pressure and I can say that in the matter of Onnoghen, what happened? We waited for the Bar Association, nothing happened. We waited for the Attorney-General’s office, nothing happened. And everybody was looking at us .
He challenged the audience to compare the Nigerian senators’ pay to their United States’ counterparts.Responding to Abaribe’s remarks on Justice Onnoghen’s sack, Ozekhome berated lawyers for not doing enough to protest Justice Onnoghen’s prosecution and conviction. But Ozekhome got a sharp reply from activist-lawyer Falana, who reminded him that the Pakistani CJ was not unlawfully removed under a cloud of unexplained wealth, just like Onnoghen.
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