Justice mohammed, who spoke at a special session to mark the
commencement of the 2016-2017 legal year and the swearing-in of the new senior
advocates of Nigeria (SANs), said the affected judges were being investigated
by the national judiciary council (NJC).
Responding to criticisms from various bodies on the issue,
the NJC said that appropriate actions
would be taken against the judges by the NJC at the end of the probe.
Most of the conflicting judgements, said to have posed the
countrys judiciary to ridicule, emanatd from suits instituted by the two
fractions of the opposition people democratic party (PDP) in a bid to resolve
their political differences on the party national leadership.
The CJN who is due for retirement from the bench in November
added that the constitution is clear as to the procedure that must be followed
in appointing a justice of the supreme court or a substantive chief justice of
Nigeria and such must be adhered to in appointing the next chief justice after
his tenure.
While congratulating the newly appointed senior advocates,
the chief justice urged them to strive to uphold the trust that the society reposes in them
even as the new status has impose moral obligations and professional duties on
them.
He also expressed the need to interrogate the architecture
of the regulatory bodies in order to strengthen the bar association and law
societies.
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