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Clean Up Your Reputation, You’re Pushed Left, Right -Emir Sanusi Tells Judges

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Nov 11, 2024.

The Emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi II, has charged Nigerian judges to clean up their reputations, saying they are being pushed left and right.

This is as he expressed his sympathies to them for having to work in what he termed a dysfunctional society.

Sanusi stated this during an event organised by the Movement for Islamic Culture and Awareness, MICA, a non-profit Islamic faith-based organisation, adding that working in such an environment is not an easy task.

While speaking on the theme, ‘Ethics, Morality, and the Law’, the royal father said the negative remarks being passed about Nigerian judges are perpetuated by just a few of them.

The monarch, however, called on the legal experts to work towards bringing the number of bad judges to zero.

“Let me start by saying that for all the judges in this room, please accept my sympathies. Being a judge in a dysfunctional Society is not an easy task.

“You are pushed left, right and center; there’s so many expectations from politicians, from the people, and frankly in every profession, just like in a large family of many good children, all you need is just one or two bad children and the entire family’s reputation is destroyed.

“And I think a bunch of what we hear about the judiciary is something that is about a very tiny minority of judges. I have so many judges in person and I must say that I have not personally met a bad judge.

“But the reality is that my lord, you have a big task because at the end of the day, you all have the fight to clean up the reputation, we have to make sure that we bring down the number of bad judges to zero,” he said.

The former CBN governor also expressed reservations about some court judgements that are not upheld owing to technicalities.

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