IN a country buffeted by corruption like ours, the judiciary is expected to be the last bus-stop of hope for the common man. It is the primary organ of any democratic society that is expected to guarantee equal access to justice and equity to everyone that approaches its supposedly hallowed temple.

Recently the success of the Federal Government’s amnesty programme was called to question when some ex-militants practically took the laws into their hands while protesting their alleged exclusion from the programme. The protesting former militants had barricaded the Mbiama bridge on the busy East-West road, a development that left most commuters plying that road stranded for several hours.

Rather than just banning the country’s football teams aftermath of the dismal performance of the Super Eagles at the last World Cup in South Africa, the President should have banned the National Assembly, PHCN, the Police and all other institutions.

THERE appears to be no end in sight to the disagreement between members of Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, Obafemi Awolowo University, OAU, Ile-Ife, Branch and the university’s authorities over alleged double deduction of workers’ pension.

Not until the crush of civil litigation brought on by the explosion of personal injury cases in the industrial era did judges begin to appreciate the workload relief plea bargaining promised”.