The Retired President of the Court of Appeal, Justice Ayo Salami on Tuesday raises alarms that there are reports of some judges and retired senior judges who practice as consultants in fixing judgments in the country.
Salami, who alleged that these consultants take money from litigants to bribe the judges or intimidate judges to pervert the course of justice. He made the statement while speaking in Ilorin, in an opening ceremony of the 2014 biennial law week of the Nigerian Bar Association, Ilorin branch; with the titled, ‘A centenary of legal practice in Nigeria: 1914-2014: Legacies and lessons for the next century.’
According to him; “It is my respectful view that appeal should be made to these retired senior justices to leave the despicable role of bribing or intimidating judges. They should engage themselves in other respectable vocations. The judges who lend themselves to these dishonourable practices of receiving money or lending themselves to perverting the course of justice under the guise of not receiving reward monetary or otherwise should note that there are other means of checking the excesses."
