“The NBA is sending a high powered investigation team to Ekiti to investigate the facts surrounding this matter. Any person(s) no matter how highly placed found involved in this show of shame and desecration of our courts will surely face the full force of the law as NBA will ensure prosecution of any such person(s).

Ekiti NURTW former chairman, shot dead

Allso reacting to Thursday’s attack on a judge, Mr. Femi Falana (SAN), said: “in my reaction to the outcome of the Ekiti State governorship election held on June 21, 2014 , I expressed the view that the Ekiti people had gone back to Egypt. The mayhem unleashed on a high court judge, lawyers and litigants in the precint of the Ekiti State High Court sitting at Ado Ekiti on Monday, 23 September, 2014 by a gang of hired hoodlums has confirmed that the Ekiti people have fully returned to the wilderness. As the thugs were not brought to book they regrouped this morning (Thursday) and launched another attack on the High Court. In the process Justice Isaac Adeyeye was beaten up while the car of Mr. Rotimi Akeredolu, a former President of the Nigerian Bar Association was destroyed. Other judges and lawyers ran for dear lives.

“Thus, by desecrating the temple of Justice with the connivance of the police the armed lumpen elements left no one in doubt that they have the full backing of the ruling party in executing the premeditated onslaught on the judiciary. So far, those who perpetrated the barbaric attack and their sponsors have admitted their ignoble role through public statements issued by them. The Ekiti State governor-elect, Mr. Ayo Fayose has justified the shameful attack on the rule of law in Ekiti State by saying that his election cannot be challenged in court. This is a reminder of the Idi Amin era in Uganda when judges were killed while discharging judicial functions. Mr. Fayose and his thugs should not be allowed to kill judges and lawyers before calling him to order.”

Falana added that “since the Ekiti State police command is completely compromised the Acting Inspector-General of Police, Mr. Suleiman Abba is called upon to ensure that all the assailants are arrested and prosecuted without any delay. Any attempt to cover up the brazen contempt of court should be resisted by the Attorney-General of Ekiti State, Mr. Wale Fapounda, who should take decisive measures to bring the criminals to book. Let no one politicize the criminality of those who are bent on replacing the rule of law with rule of force in Ekiti State. The Federal Government ought to distance itself from the shameless display of brute force by an in-coming governor.”
He said even under the defunct military junta judges were never subjected to physical assault over their decisions.