Professor Itse Sagay, the
Chairman of the Presidential Advisory Committee on Anti-corruption (PACAC) says
some Senior Advocates of Nigeria are working against the war against corruption
by the Buhari government.
The former Dean of the Faculty of
Law, University of Benin (UNIBEN) said this in a chat with Vanguard.
He said SANs deliberately
frustrate cases for selfish reasons.
“The Senior Advocates really are
the most major problem we now have in the whole anti-corruption war because,
who are the people who corrupt the judges?
“A judge cannot sit in the court
and corrupt himself or herself; somebody makes the suggestion, somebody carries
the money to him.
“It is just a pity that the
judges now do not have strong moral character to resist it and expose such
people.
“There is no reason a judge
cannot send out a senior advocate from the court, if he is deliberately trying
to delay and frustrate a case.
“So everything bounces back to
the judge, who should exercise supreme authority in his own court and not
become the dog being wagged by the senior advocates’ tail.
“This is what is happening in
many cases”, the legal luminary stated.
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