Mahmud Mohammed, the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN) has described as inconsiderate and ignorant of judiciary operations, those criticizing judicial officers as corrupt.
Mohammed made the assertion on Wednesday, while speaking at a special valedictory session held in his honour in Abuja.
The CJN is retiring from the judiciary after 38 years of service.
He noted further that such criticisms are made without due considerations of the law and the system of government in the country.
He said that the judiciary is duty bound to act and would continue to act in accordance with the dictates of the law as it stands and not as its critics would want it to be.
Lending his voice, to the position of the CJN, the President of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Augustine Alegeh, also condemned in strong terms, the criticism of the Nigerian judiciary.
The NBA President also described the act as ‘a deliberate attempt to disparage the judiciary’.
It would be recalled that after the recent losses in the apex court, the leadership of the ruling All People`s Congress (APC) accused the Supreme Court judges of corruption and demanded that they should be probed.
