Kogi State Chief Judge, Justice Josiah Joe Majebi has restated the need for judges and lawyers to sustain the integrity of the legal profession in the country.

Justice Majebi stated this when he received the new leadership of the Lokoja branch of the Nigerian Bar Association ,NBA, in Lokoja.

The CJ noted that sustaining professional and personal honour and dignity by Judges and Lawyer in Nigeria is inevitable to the credibility of the profession before litigants and the general public.

According to him, Judges of Kogi State judiciary have been found to live above board over the years, as the kind of cases handled by the Judges do not provide enabling environment for recklessness on the part of judicial officers in the state.

On the theme of Law Week; “Strengthening the Bar-Bench Synergy in the effective delivery of Justice and Nation building”, Justice Majebi
stressed the need for the Bench and the Bar to synergize in the discharge of their duties as for a fair and effective administration of justice.

Earlier in his remark, the Lokoja Branch Chairman of the Association, Barrister Sumaila Abbas, had particularly expressed appreciation to Justice Abdul Awulu of the High Court of Justice, who stood in for the Chief Judge, for his excellent coordination of the activities of the Law Week when the Bench’s inputs were required.

According to him, the choice of the theme was carefully made after deliberation with stakeholders and some unofficial complaints by some of his members over negative and unfair treatment by some Judges.

He however said the Judges and Senior Advocates of Nigeria who handled the topic did justice to it and the Bar was looking forward to putting the discourse into practice just as the NBA was prepared to deal with any member who derails from the ethics of the profession.

Abbas further stressed that the Bar had instituted a policy to receive and appropriately handle official complaints from any of his member who feels aggrieved by the conduct(s) of any Judge and wished the same be extended to the Bench to ensure sanity and mutual respect between the Bar and the Bench in the administration of justice in the state.