The Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, stated on Saturday that it was shocked to learn that a portion of the High Court building in Ekiti State had collapsed on Chief Judge Justice Oyewole Adeyeye.
The NBA, the country’s umbrella association of legal practitioners, made the announcement through its President, Mr. Yakubu Maikyau, SAN.
The NBA expressed regret that the collapsed court room revealed the amount of infrastructural decay in the judiciary.
According to the report, the collapsed Ekiti court building, “again brings to the fore the deplorable state of infrastructures in most court buildings in Nigeria and the pitiable state of facilities available to court officials and users in the country.”
As a result, NBA President David Stern urged the government to be more diligent in improving the status of infrastructure and security in courts throughout the federation.
“Mr. Maikyau who has since been engaging the leadership of the Bar and the Judiciary in Ekiti State over this incident, has expressed his delight that his lordship is responding to treatment and he has extended the gratitude of the NBA to the doctors, nurses and other staff of ABUAD Multi-system Hospital, Ado Ekiti, where his lordship is presently being tended to.
“The NBA President has urged members to pray for the quick and prompt recovery of his lordship, the Honourable the Chief Judge of Ekiti State,” the statement added.
