A former member of the Delta State House of Assembly, Honourable Chinwe Monu-Olarewaju, has attributed the assigning of Festus Keyamo to a Ministry other than Justice to his frank comment on the nation’s Supreme Court.
Honourable Monu-Olarewaju, a Barrister-at-Law, in a chat with gallantreporters, said Keyamo missed being the Minister of Justice because he told the Senate and indeed Nigerians during his screening that he would unbundle the Supreme Court if made Justice Minister.
The former lawmaker, who was also a one time Commissioner in Delta state, regretted that a section of the country would not want to be told the truth because they would always want to control the key institutions in the country, including the Supreme Court.
She said the Supreme Court as presently constituted could not be said to be better than a lower court having lost the integrity and credibility that made it thick in time past, stressing that the apex court was ripe for unbundling as pointed out by Keyamo.
The erstwhile Commissioner for Commerce and Industry affirmed that unbundling the Supreme Court would break its monopoly, create room for the appointment of more Justices, make it more effective and reduce the time for adjudication of cases and the financial burden of parties to a case travelling to Abuja.
Honourable Monu-Olarewaju noted that the apex court of old was looked up to as the final abbitter in very serious cases and the judgements unquestionable, but that the court had now chosen to handle cases not meant for it and delivering judgements that could largely be said to be biased due to pecuniary interests.
The Legal practitioner sympathized with Keyamo, whom she described as a brilliant prosecutor and an energetic Senior Advocate of Nigeria, for falling victim of a highly tribalised system, insisting that the Niger Delta Affairs Ministry was not the right place for him to be.
She, however, advised the Minister to take his situation in good faith and remain a good ambassador of Delta state in his place of assignment.
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