Why corruption thrives in the judiciary – Justice Ayo Salami

JUSTICE ISA AYO-SALAMI

The second part of the paper by a former President of the Court of Appeal, Justice Isa Ayo Salami (retd), on the issue of corruption in Nigeria and the way out. For instance, when I was invited by Honourable Justice Aloma Mariam Mukhtar, CJN, and Honourable Justice Mahmud Mohammed, JSC, who was then the next most senior justice of the Supreme Court, and now the incumbent CJN, to discuss the issue of whether I would be prepared to accept the decision of the National Judicial Council to stay for three months and then leave the service, the options were laid before me.