Only yesterday, a court somewhere in Nigeria took it upon itself to inject the honorable court into the intractable man-made crisis in Rivers State. We can look at a ruling like this and remember June 12. A certain Judge ruled that the Electoral Commission should stop releasing results of the elections. Going back all the way to the First Republic, we also saw the roles that Judges played including the famous lines of a really big Justice at the time who said, “My hands are tied.”
It is unwise for a Judge to inject the court into a State crisis.
A wise Judge should call the Parties to court for mediation or else direct the parties to stop disturbing the court and for them to go and resolve their problems.
A pronouncement such as the Judge has made is capable of inflaming passions especially from a region which contributes a big portion, if not the biggest portion to the national cake that’s being managed by the same Central Bank that’s being directed to stop “giving” allocations to Rivers State.
The people of the State have demonstrated a capacity to lock down the region in the past, specifically in 2007/2008. Their activities at the time forced President Yar’Adua to negotiate an Amnesty program.
The Judge must be guided by a sense of history in making decisions from an exalted desk.
In the final analysis, Egogonews thinks this pronouncement is unwise, and capable of creating a slippery slope of events that may not bode well for the 4th Republic.
We all have a responsibility to preserve and protect the Republic. The biggest theater of war is in the North. We all need our esteemed Army to focus their attention in fighting off and neutralizing the terrorists. We do not want any Judge opening up another theater by a provocative judgement.
The wise man says: Those who have ears to hear, let them hear.
Egogonewshub.
