The Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, last week started another controversy, when it said, at the inauguration of its committees in Abuja, that "the present NJC (National Judicial Council) records over the past seven years, only 20% of Judges are ranked as average or fairly good. The rest are simply not pulling their weight. These assessments are from empirical records."
This clearly place 80% of judges in the country below average and of serious concern to any discerning mind. It is actually a serious matter to the ordinary Nigerian, if he or she is made to believe by the NBA, who quoted an NJC report, that eight in every 10 judges, before whom all manner of matters are brought for determination, are indeed below average and perhaps not fit for the job.
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