Vocal lawyer and renowned activist, James Chukwunenye Ezike in this interview with YETUNDE AYOBAMI OJO, suggest that the best form of government is anarchism.
I have said it over and over again that we don’t practise democracy at all. What we practise is a continuation of military rule. The military is still in power. They have never left. And if you are looking for improved dictatorship, I am afraid, there is not going to be any. Most of the people who present themselves as democrats even across the states are crooks. And I have no exception. Media houses are not independent. All the arms of government are virtually non-existent.
In Nigeria, there is no such thing. In England people want to be Queens Counsel because they want to be judges, they want to leave the middle class and become nobility. In Nigeria, we have people who called themselves princes’ who go to high court, bow and say my lord. If you are a prince, what business do you have with practising law? I have a friend who is a prince in England, he is a lawyer and he doesn’t go to court. How can a prince bow to a judge? That is the English system.
But the way they write judgment in Nigeria, I do not know whether we need those judges. What they do is to get a computer, type out the facts of a case and get-out the legal authorities, but that is not what the courts are all about. What makes court of Appeal what it is, is the jurisprudence of law. You listen to the peculiar facts of a case and apply the wisdom. But our court of appeal doesn’t have advisers as brilliant as those judges in the US Supreme Court.
He will be better to be a nihilist .
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