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Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo believes that the process of appointing judges in Nigeria should be more stringent.<\/p>\n
Osinbajo said it is \u201cstunning\u201d that the process for evaluating judges in Nigeria \u201cis one of the least rigorous processes imaginable\u201d during a 2022 justice sector summit organized by the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) and the Justice Research Institute in Abuja on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
The vice-president, who drew a parallel between Nigeria and other countries such as the United Kingdom, stated that appointing judges should include a thorough assessment of candidates.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn the United Kingdom from where we derive most of the structures of our judicature, applicants to judicial office in superior courts go through several screening processes. At some point, it was 17 stages, including written examinations, interviews and role-play exercises,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cThey are subjected to rigorous background investigations covering professional credentials and abilities, public records, judicial pronouncements, personal financial affairs, evaluation by the bar association on integrity, professional competence and judicial temperament.<\/p>\n Also Read:\u00a0Enough Of Attacks On Judicial Officers \u2014 CJN<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cAnd in the US, supreme court appointments involve rigorous public screening by the senate, which sifts through the entire public, and sometimes private lives of candidates.<\/p>\n \u201cThat is the nature of the rigour that anyone who should hold the power of life and death, and power over other people\u2019s livelihoods, should go through.<\/p>\n \u201cIt shouldn\u2019t be a \u2018take a bow\u2019 situation at all. It must be rigorous because the moment the person is appointed into a high office of that sort, they are unleashed as it were on the rest of us.<\/p>\n \u201cThe robustness and transparency of the processes in these jurisdictions provide comfort to the candidates of the fairness of the selection process and enables the public to have front-row seat in some of these processes.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Osinbajo Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo believes that the process of appointing judges in Nigeria should be more stringent. Osinbajo said it is \u201cstunning\u201d that the process for evaluating judges in Nigeria \u201cis one of the least rigorous processes imaginable\u201d during a 2022 justice sector summit organized by the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) and the Justice Research […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-919653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=919653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919653\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=919653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=919653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=919653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}