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Nigeria’s judiciary deeply compromised, says Obasanjo
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo on Friday expressed concern that Nigeria’s judiciary has become “deeply compromised”.
Obasanjo noted that corruption among judges has turned Nigerian courts into “court of corruption rather than courts of justice”.
The ex-President made the assertion in his new book, ‘Nigeria: Past and Future’, published by the Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library.
The former Nigerian leader lamented what he described as the “steady decline of the judiciary’s integrity”.
“The reputation of the Nigerian judiciary has steadily gone down from the four eras up till today. The rapidity of the precipitous fall, particularly in the Fourth Republic, is lamentable,” he wrote.
The former military Head of State equally stated that justice had become commodified in Nigeria, with dangerous consequences for the nation’s stability.