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, published from Hobart, in Tasmania. Under the title “A Modest Judge”, the newspaper took aim at Justice Higgins, a senior judge of the High Court of Australia who was also the first president of the Commonwealth Court of Conciliation and Arbitration.
This was the factual background to the article that was to become the centrepiece of the proceedings in the High Court of Australia in which the newspaper said of Justice Higgins that he was “we believe, what is called a political judge, that is, he was appointed because he had well served a political party. He, moreover, seems to know his position, and does not mean to allow any reflections on those to whom he may be said to be indebted for his judgeship.
Regrettably, Madam CJN labours under the misapprehension that it is always possible or easy to know what the order is that is to be obeyed. The joke is that court orders these days are so lucrative that many judges make them – in good old Nigeria-speak – double-double. Responsibility for this sorry state lies mostly with the federal high court.
Not even the inspector-general of police who must provide the steel behind the orders of courts in Nigeria, has much regard for them. The most charitable that can be said of Kayode Egbetokun is that he is a political IGP. For most of his professional life, Egbetokun has been the ato the man who now occupies the presidency. Even as IGP, the habits of a lifetime as ADC die hard. In his current office, he now heads the uniformed, armed wing of the ruling party.
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