CASER frown at use of abusive language to describe supreme court Justices

CASER frown at use of abusive language to describe supreme court Justices

By: Bodunrin Kayode

The Citizens Advocacy For Social and Economic Rights (CASER) has expressed concern over the use of abusive languages to describe the highly respected Justices of the Supreme Court of Nigeria by a particular group of persons who claims to be members of the Nigerian Civil society of Nigeria . 

CASAR described the group as disgruntled  as a result of their recent pronouncement on  the Supreme Court of Nigeria over the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) policy on demonetization.

” Such elements do not qualify to describe themselves as representatives of civil society of Nigeria and should not be so accorded by any media organization.” said Frank Tietie of CASAR. 

He said in a release that Nigerians must learn to respect constituted authority and realise that a legal order is put in place in every country to ensure peace and order in public and private affairs. 

” Claiming to be members of Civil society does not give anyone the liberty to make disparaging statements against the Supreme Court of Nigeria in public, especially during a live telecast of a press briefing to the whole world on national and international television networks.

“By Nigeria’s Common law tradition, any disrespect for the court of law during its proceedings or in the general public is considered a criminal offence punishable with imprisonment. 

” Therefore, the so-called civil society group, which decided to throw caution to the wind by picking on the Supreme Court Justices, to abuse them because they delivered a ruling on an interim application, must be prepared to face the consequences associated with such behaviour that is fueled by a mixture of dutch courage and crass ignorance.

“The leaders of the group, which addressed that live press briefing on the 8th of February, were presumably emboldened by too much resources, enabling them even to buy hours of airtime for a live broadcast on prime television stations.

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” Consequent upon that, they lost every sense of decency in the manner they addressed the Supreme Court Justices. They were clearly on a mission to undermine the foundation of the Nigerian state under the pretext of allegiance to President Behari while pushing a jaundiced agenda on the CBN demonetization Policy of Cash withdrawal limit and Naira redesign. 

“CASER, as a responsible Non-Govermental organization and, by extension, a civil society organisation which anchors all of its advocacy on law, will not accept or tolerate any form of denigration of Nigerian Courts and judges, irrespective of the decisions they make.

” This is based on the principle it adopts that there are no alternatives to peace and legal order the courts provide except conflicts, confusion and war.” He noted. 

CASER frown at use of abusive language to describe supreme court Justices