The newly sworn Acting Chief Judge of Rivers State, Justice Daisy Okocha said her administration would ensure ethical standard in the State Judiciary.
Speaking at a prayer session at the Rivers State High Court complex, Port Harcourt after her swearing-in as the Acting Chief Judge of Rivers State by the governor Nyesom Wike, Justice Okocha said she would ensure zero tolerance in corruption.
The newly sworn-in acting chief judge who expressed her profound gratitude to God for her elevation as the Acting Chief Judge of Rivers State and for making the ceremony possible, despite all odds described the occasion as a new dawn where old things has passed away urged her colleagues in the Judiciary never to desecrate the Judiciary again.
Justice Okocha who urged judiciary workers to be dedicated to their duties, work in one accord and corporate with her administration to restore the dignity of the Judiciary promised to ensure discipline in the judiciary.
According to her, I was born into the family of a disciplinary police officer who disciplined his children to do the right things, assuring that she will enthroned discipline in the judiciary and urged workers in the judiciary to be dedicated in their works and called on the public including the judicial workers to give advice where necessary to move the Rivers State Judiciary forward. Speaking at the ceremony, Barrister OCJ Okocha, the former President of the Nigeria Bar Association, expressed gratitude to God for making the ceremony possible recalled that lawyers in the State Judiciary prior to the appointment of the Acting Chief Judge of the State encountered hardship.
According to him, some of them in the judiciary were engaged in indigent jobs. Some turned to photographers and all sort of menial jobs due to crisis that rock the State Judiciary and urges lawyers in the State not to allow politicians to divide them in future.
According to him, my colleagues should allow the rule of law to prevail.
Okocha further charged lawyers in the State to forgive one another and prayed that God should help the judiciary to restore the dignity of the profession as well as move the judiciary forward.
Similarly in his speech, Barrister Rufus N. Godwin the Solicitor General of the State and the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Justice, who blamed members of the judiciary in the crisis that rocked the judiciary said the lawyers suffered in the last one year due to conspiracy of silence.
According to him, for the past eight years, the lawyers has not been paid their statutory allowances and other benefits, yet some of the lawyers collected laptop and other item from the government.
Barrister Godwin who noted that lawyers in the State betrayed themselves during the judicial crisis appealed for forgiveness and joined hands to restore the dignity of lawyers in the State judiciary.
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