NIGERIA. AFRICA. JUDICIARY. POLITICS. SATIRE
Nigeria: A Tale of Three ARMS of the Judiciary
Ordinarily, the Judiciary is ideally the third or the ‘last’ arm of the government.
Yes, the judiciary is the third arm of the government. But that is on a universal, global or international level.
On a 'locally, localized' level, however, the Judiciary has three arms here in Nigeria, albeit allegedly.
JUDIciary
There is the Judiciary. This is saddled constitutionally with the noble responsibility of interpreting the law or the constitution, adjudicating cases between (among) litigants and administering the theory and practice of 'legalism' and all related matters officially. This, no doubt, they do with utmost professionalism predicated on fairness, justice, equity and equality, firmness, evidence, logic and all the germane principles known to law and humanity.
For example, several years ago; a judge while dismissing a case of an alleged murder which neither had a head nor a tail (to employ my highly unlearned plus layman’s term) had described it, thus:
“A bundle of uncertainty, magnified assumption…
