DELAYS in criminal cases should be blamed on the lack of mechanised equipment and technical support, such as recorders and fast writers, for judges to move as fast as is desirable, former Supreme Court Judge George Oguntade has said.
Justice Oguntade, who spoke yesterday in an interview, said the judicial process was not an easy process, adding that the accused and the prosecution must be given every opportunity to put across their facts.
But unfortunately, all we have are manual means of judges writing with pens and papers.
He faulted the poor remuneration of judges, describing their salaries as poor and frustrating.
Justice Oguntade said: “Even I as a retired Supreme Court judge, I cannot conduct my life on pension, because if I do I will not be able to survive. So I have been forced to re-enter law practice in one form or the other. Life is hard for these judges and it is not good for us to just keep blaming them.”
On erring judges, he noted that anyone caught faulting should be dismissed
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