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By Demola Akinyemi, Ilorin
Former Chairman, National Human Rights Commission of Nigeria (NHRCN) Professor Chidi Anselm Odinkalu has bemoaned the assemblage legacies successful Nigeria, describing it arsenic profoundly shameful, urging the radical to disconnect from it and instrumentality a caller way to regenerate a genuine enactment strategy for the country.
Odinkalu said this astatine the 2nd KWASU Prof Yusuf Olaolu Ali SAN yearly lecture titled:,”Decolonising ineligible briefs: Towards effectual implementation of the section contented instrumentality for the payment of Nigerian lawyers.”he delivered successful ilorin connected Thursday.
According to him:,”We’ve got to recognize that we person got a profoundly shameful assemblage past that really was designed not to marque america quality beings and a agreed community.”
He added that,”If we marque that cognition disposable to our people, the likelihood is that radical would respond to it otherwise alternatively than judge the myths that we person been given.
“So teaching is important and reforming not conscionable wide program but the teaching of instrumentality which is precise urgent. What that has meant is that though colonialism has ended we are inactive mentally and ideologically babelike connected assemblage regularisation successful excessively galore ways.”
He noted that,”If we tin code that ,it volition springiness america an accidental overtime to regenerate leadership. Leadership is the different level which we’ve got to code .
” Leadership arsenic successful entree to government,politics and truthful connected , and my anticipation is that addressing this astatine antithetic enactment stages would instrumentality america to way of large nation.”
He besides described Law arsenic a travel successful memory, and a travel successful past and urged
the instrumentality students to halt externalising their idols, alternatively of Lord Dennings, wherefore not Idol Yusuf Ali,and different legends successful instrumentality signifier successful Nigeria helium queried.
He besides noted that Colonial powerfulness thrives nether Cohesive power,Power of liquidation
Control and Power of ideation, stressing that
Nigeria instrumentality was structured connected assemblage benignant that ne'er had the involvement of Nigeria people.
He nevertheless urged the instrumentality students, to statesman to alteration the mode they deliberation astir themselves, and ne'er let anyone to acceptable a barroom connected what they tin achieve.
“I Want young Nigerians to beryllium aggravated due to the fact that a batch of things person been hidden from them.”he besides said.
Odinkalu further tasked the upcoming lawyers to combat for the independency of judiciary, saying that,”There’s thing similar judicial independence,it took maine Twenty 5 years aft becoming a lawyer to observe this,so it’s implicit to the incoming lawyers to combat for it.”
He besides took a swipe astatine what helium described arsenic commercialisation of admissions into universities, peculiarly states and backstage universities arsenic agelong arsenic the guardians and parents tin spend it .
He said it’s a slayer to nationhood, erstwhile halfway nonrecreational courses are offered to students who’ll turn up to go monsters against the maturation and improvement of the country.
Former Vice President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo who was president of the ocassion successful his remarks interrogated the pros and cons of lawyers usage of technicalities,citing applicable cases.
He nevertheless cautioned that technicalities should not beryllium utilized to contradict tribunal the close to service radical bully judgement, which is what judiciary is each about.
The celebrant, Professor Yusuf Olaolu Ali SAN successful his remark astir lawyer’s usage of technicalities said that,”It is what we instrumentality to the tribunal that the tribunal volition determine on,so it’s the lawyers that effort to transportation the Judges to spell successful that direction.
“So whitethorn beryllium we should conscionable entreaty to ourselves arsenic well,it is not each astir Judiciary,it is astir the lawyers that really instrumentality each the matters to tribunal and the tribunal marque a pronouncement.”
Yusuf Ali connected the independency of judiciary said,”if you work the lecturer’s book,the 1 conscionable published,his mentation was that erstwhile the colonialists came and acceptable up the judicial system,it was to favour their activities.It was not meant to beryllium autarkic to the level of giving justness to the natives.
“Unfortunately adjacent aft independence,we’ve not been capable to triumph ourselves away.So those who succeeded the colonialists excessively saw the judiciary arsenic an instrumentality to beryllium utilized to perpetuate themselves successful positions.
“It is the aforesaid happening with each our institutions today.The constabulary for example,was acceptable up arsenic a repressive unit successful assemblage days and it has remained s...
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