Wanted: A State of Emergency in Our Criminal Justice System, Articles THISDAY LIVE
"Sometime last year, I warned that former Governor, James Ibori’s various escapades involving our criminal justice system eroded confidence in that system, making inevitable the outsourcing of justice concerning persons who should normally be subject to tried by our system (Ibori and the Outsourcing of Justice, May 18, 2010; Outsourcing Justice: Time To Claim Our Profession back, June 15, 2010).
Now that Ibori has finally been extradited to the UK to have his day in court on money laundering and fraud charges I thought it pertinent to reproduce both columns below.
Interestingly, our cover this week former ICPC chairman, retired Supreme Court Justice Olayinka Ayoola, spoke frankly about the shenanigans of our Bar and how we get cases tied up in the legal system forever, through dubious applications and injunctions. Clearly, he’s deeply pained about how this affects our fight against corruption. Some of his views are quite radical, and I must say I have to agree with them. The interview is on pages viii-x, within."
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