Is that what you read from THIS story, that AG Malami was an un-ethical lawyer before he became a SAN and then AG? As for me, that is not what I read at all!
First, the headline IS wrong: Malami did not beg the Judge to become a SAN, but rather apologized to him for not being able to sustain an accusation of improper conduct from the bench, for which he was liable to sanctioned by the NBA if reported by the NJC. Clearly, a sanction would affect his future law career - not merely a SAN-ship which hecwas hoping for soon thereafter - and he was asked to eat humble pie and apologise to the Judge.....Which he did, and which the Judge accepted....which DID not adversely affect Malami's success of application for SANship.
Case closed......until now.
The real lessons here are that:
(1) the present AG Malami has been aware of un-ethicality from the bench for a long time, even though he could not prove his own case at that time because the very client that he was fighting for pulled back from giving supporting evidence at the last minute. Who knows whether the poor fellow was intimidated that he would lose the case more badly because of his crusading lawyer? Who knows whether the client was even bribed? If AG Makami - and by the way Vice-President Osinbajo - was aware of rifeness of judicial corruption before now, us this not the time when they (Malami and Osinbsjo) have the opportunity to correct it to do so?
(2) Justice Ademola - clearly :this is not the first time thst he has been accused of judicial impropriety, even though apparently none has been proven. It is however jejune for him to be bringing up an old case as the basis for his new case, when there are several other cases also involved, and when new evidence us being proffered . Did those other judges also get "begged" by Malami? Is he also out for revenge against all of them? When Malami was being confirmed as AG, did Ademola write to object that Malami has judicial distemper, and hence would use his position to go after enemies, real and imagined? Or why is it now that he is just disclosing all of this? I really find it uncouth.
(3) SANship.... Finally, it appears that Malami lowered his judicial integrity - and gave up the fight - ostensibly because he did not wish to jeopardize his SANship. So what REALLY is in this SANship that our senior lawyers are dying for? Is it right to confer on so many lawyers so many privileges - in where they sit in court, in the order of hearing their cases, in the fees they chsrge, in how senior Judges sit among lawyers to determine who is a SAN and whi is not? SaNship has a component: the number of times you appear before the Supreme Court. Is that not an incentuve for every case, no matter how barrow, to end up in the Supreme Court? In which other countries in the world are these practices of favour accorded legal professionals, and is it in accord with the true administration if justice?
No wonder my brilliant American lawyer, Muyiwa Sobo, now transplanted to Nigeria, wrote recently that SANship in Nigeria is being seriously abused, and if not ended altogether, , should be seriously mended.
So in the final analysis, this Ademola-Salami episode should be used by all of us as another teachable moment in the movement towards sanitizing our judiciary, and not a moment just to bash the AG for doing his job.
And there you have it. I rest my case.
Bolaji Aluko
On Sunday, October 30, 2016, Ishola Williams <isholawilliams@gmail.com> wrote:
We have had too many AGs with no ethical background and therefore lack the integrity to be in that postion.Let AG Mallami resign as he is not fit ethically to be in that position.LET US HAVE APOLITICAL PUBLIC DEFENDER IN PLACE OF AN AG WHOSE LOYALTY IS TO THE PUBLIC AND THE PUBLIC MUST SCRUTINISE BEFORE THE APPOINTMENT.iw--On Sun, Oct 30, 2016 at 11:45 AM, 'Joe Attueyi' via AfricanWorldForum <africanworldforum@googlegroups.com > wrote:And there you have it.....
http://punchng.com/malami-begged-become-san-justice-ademola/
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