Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt
Dispensation of Justice in Rivers state has become a highly perilous business and judges have become so endangered that they are now scared stiff to go to Court, Chief Judge of the state, Justice Daisy Okocha has said.
She said judges are now being threatened by unknown persons via telephone and called for increased security around them.
She said specifically that Justice George Otakpo Omereji , who recently chaired a Judicial Commission of Inquiry has been receiving death threats from unknown persons.
Justice Okocha also said judges in the State are afraid of resuming work at the courts that were bombed last year by unknown persons in Degema, Ahoada and Okehi at the peak political crisis due to the porous security around the courts.
In his response, the State Commissioner of Police, Musa Kimo urged judges to treat police orderlies attached to them with respect.
He promised to look into the security challenges facing judges in the State.
At the meeting were by top Judges in Rivers State Judiciary and Senior Police officers in the State.