Nigeria’s CJN Advocates The Unification of African Judiciary

Nigeria's CJN Advocates The Unification of African Judiciary
Justice Ibrahim Muhammud
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Justice Ibrahim Muhammud the current Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), has made a case for the unification of the African judiciary if it must compete favorably with its counterpart across the globe.

The Chief Justice who made the call on lawyers on the African continent, however, urged them to always show professionalism in the discharge of the legal duties.

A statement by the CJN’s media aide, Mr. Ahuraka Isah, on Sunday said Muhammad gave the charge when he hosted a delegation of the African Bar Association (AFBA) in his office at the Supreme Court, Abuja.

While thanking them for the visit, the CJN said the association should do everything it could to ensure African lawyers compete favorably amongst the best of lawyers around the world in content and good character. This is because the African bench can’t be clean if its origin is filthy’.

The statement noted that Justice Muhammad described the African legal system as ‘a broken mirror reflecting different directions, especially the directions of various colonial homes of respective countries. Yet, Africans are the only people who in the past resolved disputes and issues through traditional institutions’.

‘The association should work hard for the unification of African judiciary and mutual legal development,’ he said.

Mr. Hannibal Uwaifo who is the President of the Association told the CJN that they were in his office to brief him on the activities of the association, and also invite him to their 2021 annual conference slated for August 2021 in Niamey, Niger Republic.

Uwaifo, who told the CJN that the visit was on behalf of the chairman of AFBA Governing Council, Mr. Joseph Daudu (SAN), added that it was also part of the association’s continuous consultations with chief justices of Supreme Courts across the continent.

‘The visit is to afford us the opportunity to brief Your Lordship firsthand about our activities, our positive impact in the legal profession and judicial sector across the continent, and also to enable us to make suggestions for the post-COVID-19 era for the African judiciary,‘ he said.

Uwaifo noted that the AFBA 2021 annual conference, which was scheduled to hold from February 28 – March 5, 2021, in Niamey, has been postponed to August 2021 because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

 

AFRICA DAILY NEWS, NEW YORK

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