Nigeria must solve the problems bedeviling its legal system for there to be development, Deputy Chief of Staff to the President, Ade Ipaye has said.“The state of a legal system determines a society’s development. If the legal system fails, all else will fail,” he said.
Ipaye gave the keynote address at the opening of the Nigerian Bar Association Lagos Branch Law Week technical sessions.The former Lagos State Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice decried what he called “glaring inadequacies in our legal system.” Unlike Nigeria, such unethical practices lead to severe sanctions in advanced jurisdictions and are never tolerated, Ipaye said.
Ipaye cited an instance of criminal cases involving five former bank chief executives whose trials began in 2009, of which only one has been decided through plea bargaining.To him, the impression is created that people can perpetrate corruption and get away with it because they know the wheel of justice grinds slowly.
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