But no sooner was the judgment made public than the Chairman of the Presidential Advisory Committee against Corruption, Prof. Itse Sagay, SAN, expressed his disapproval of the Supreme Court judgment.
Although, Kalu and Udeogu had, in 2018, applied to the then President of the Court of Appeal, Justice Zainab Bulkachuwa , to issue a fiat to Justice Idris to enable him to conclude the trial, they turned around to challenge the constitutionality of the fiat after it was issued to Justice Idris and the trial had made further progress.
“The President of the Court of Appeal does not have the power to assign a case to the Federal High Court judge. Also, the Federal High Court Chief Judge cannot meddle in the internal affair of the Court of Appeal.” It ordered that the case be “remitted to Federal High Court to be reassigned by the chief judge to another judge of the court.”
But before Justice Idris could hear and rule on the no-case submission, he was elevated to the Court of Appeal bench in June 2018. The defendants later challenged the jurisdiction of the judge to hear the case, arguing that he was no longer a judge of the high court.Justice Idris dismissed both. He said, “I think this judgment is a great disservice to this country. It’s a great setback because it drags us back into the iniquity of cases that have no end without any good reason at all.
The senior lawyer also argued that justice should always take precedence over judicial interpretations.In his reaction, Falana recalled that the Section 396 of ACJA was introduced to stop rampant instances where criminal cases involving high profile personalities were stalled for a long period as a result of the elevation of the trial judge to a higher court.
“A couple of months ago, ex-Emir Lamido Sanusi’s ex parte application to secure his personal liberty from illegal banishment was assigned, heard and granted the day it was filed at the registry of the federal court. On that same day, the certified true copy of the court order was obtained, served and obeyed by the detaining authorities.”
Continue degrading the judicial system and the country as a whole, baba go slow said he would be fast in this regime, but he has become slower.. omasheoooo
There's no justice in Nigeria, there can be no end to any case involving VIPs in Nigeria based on this S'Court verdict. S'Court verdict these days is laughable
Sir's what is wrong in it. It was thrown out on technical ground. D judge shdnt ve come back 4 it but assigned it to another.
The Nigerian legal system has been made a monetary system
Mad people everywhere.
Nigeria Justice system is Very seriously Sick.
What do you expect? Since Kalu had found his way to APC, I knew his convictions would be quashed! We all knew he embezzled. But posterity ll judge all of them.
Comments like this from senior members of the Bar is irresponsible. The decision of the supreme Court is final and comments like these will only reduce the integrity of the supreme Court which is not good for our judiciary. The same SANS asked SC to hear decided case, imagine.
orumax Nigeria just borrowed 3.5 billon Dollars from IMF just for covid I can imagine Nigeria post this epidemic with debt that will last you 200 years Your current debt is below ,300 million dollars Do the maths what's going on
The duo knows who to kick to, for me Orji Uzo Kalu's case is died. Nigeria Supreme Court needs total fumigation
They have scam us, lol
What a country we are in
Your headline page?
Ndi ara.
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