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Independent and unaccountable: A new code for Nigeria’s judiciary, By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu

Chidi Anselm Odinkalu writes that democracy without voters is the origin of Nigeria’s insecurity crisis.

Increasingly, doctrines of judicial independence serve only one purpose: to render the judges independent of accountability for breaching it. The value of judicial independence, rather ironically, now lies in the absence of accountability for publicly flouting it. Among the doctrines that underpin the legal process in Nigeria, few are as profound and pervasive as judicial […]

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