The News Editor
Vanguard Newspapers
Attn: Mr Innocent Anaba
The above news headline refers,
please dear publishers, the Chief Judge of Abia State, Her Ladyship Hon.
Justice Theresa Uzokwe has yet received a copy of the referenced petition dated
22nd Jan 2018. If you have it publish it, they didn’t send a copy to
anyone. Shouldn’t she be served so we could look at it and respond to it?
Kindly ask your source Sirs/Madames, Speaker in cahoots with Attorney General
of the State and their co-travelers are hoarding information.
They cite section 292(1)(ii)
of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999. Look, the State AG
with intent to calumniate CJ’s office, trampled on her roles and
responsibilities as Hon. CJ to the extent some of her official duties were corroded.
Otherwise she is efficient, performs her administrative duties efficaciously.
They contradict themselves in terms; Allegans
contraria non est audiendus.
From the briefs we have received,
this problem begun brewing prior to and after the appointment of Hon Justice
Theresa Uzokwe as the Chief Judge of Abia State. She is an indigene of Anambra,
not from Abia and they don’t like that. She is the Chair Abia State Judicial Service
Commission (JSC) by virtue of her office, the Attorney General of the State
Chief Kalu Umeh SAN set up a parallel JSC that purported to terminate the
appointment of the Chief Registrar (CR) of the High Court of Abia State, Elizabeth Akwiwu-Chukwu Esq (Ms) and Umeh and his JSC appointed
another Mr Ben Anyanwu. The CJ and her CR protested against all of the flagrant
disrespect to the office of the CJ.
Furthermore, posting of
Magistrates from one jurisdiction to another within the state by CJ was
resisted and unlawfully countermanded by AG on State Television on the ‘authority’
of his parallel JSC in Nov- Dec 2017. CR Elizabeth confronted AG Umeh that he
lacks the legal backing to countermand Hon. CJ through Abia state media tool on
TV.
Worse still, attacks on the
finances of Abia State Judiciary; AG Umeh’s Judicial Service Commission (JSC)
wrote to Zenith Bank Plc to change the signatories of Abia State Judiciary
account from CR Elizabeth to illegally appointed CR Ben. Again Her Lordship objected
on grounds that AG is not to appoint a CR for the CJ. And now the entire Abia State
executive hand-in-glove with the Abia State House of Assembly staged that
atrocious act of “suspension”?.
Support CJ Abia, Hon. Justice
T. Uzokwe in the struggle.
Thank you!
Carol Ajie
LAWA
Fellow 2009-2010
Empower
Women Champion 2016-2017
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