Just a few hours after President Bola Tinubu submitted a request to the Senate for the screening and confirmation of 11 nominees for Supreme Court justices, the Senate promptly conducted the screening.
During the session held yesterday in Abuja by the Senate Committee on Judiciary, Human Rights and Legal Matters, Senator Opeyemi Bamidele (APC, Ekiti Central), the Senate Leader, urged the Federal Judicial Service Commission (FJSC) and National Judicial Council (NJC) to adopt a more proactive approach in recommending and appointing judges and justices to prevent prolonged vacancies on the bench.
The Senate emphasized the need for timely appointments and highlighted concerns about the lack of urgency in filling vacancies on the Supreme Court.
He said: “I have this to say, first to the appointing authorities. The last time we experienced this kind of a thing was three years ago, when I was chairman of the Senate Committee on Judiciary, Human Rights and Legal Matters and we had to take dates of My Lord Justices together just like we are having today and today, it is 11 of you.”
“My appeal on behalf of all of us to the appointing authorities is the need to avoid this kind of situation. These positions did not just became vacant in one day. I recall with a sense of patriotic pain how long this committee had to wait even after some days, list had been sent by the NJC and the senate had to wait for several months close to nine months for the names to be forwarded for whatever reason, either they waited for one person or the other to make their list.
“Today 11 people. My hope and prayer is that in the Supreme Court already, we don’t have a class of eight, I pray that is not happening but please let us not have a class of 11. As this vacancies occur, it is important that those who are next in line be screened and appointed immediately.”
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