{"id":22542,"date":"2019-11-14T22:22:34","date_gmt":"2019-11-14T21:22:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=22542"},"modified":"2019-11-14T22:22:34","modified_gmt":"2019-11-14T21:22:34","slug":"anger-as-minister-timipre-sylva-calls-judge-who-nailed-apc-a-harlot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=22542","title":{"rendered":"Anger as Minister Timipre Sylva calls judge who nailed APC a harlot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Human right activist and a senior lawyer Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa, SAN, has said it is very irresponsible for a serving minister\u00a0of the Federal Republic of Nigeria to call\u00a0a Judge a Harlot.<br \/>\nThe learned Silk registering his displeasure on Thursday over the negative energies exhibited by the minister of State for Petroleum, Mr Timipriye Silva during his interview on a television channel said such a despicable utterances amount to contempt against the authority of the Judiciary and that NBA, the Chief Justice Of Nigeria should not treat this matter with levity.<br \/>\nHe said: \u201cJust tonight, on prime time television (Channels) programme monitored by me in Lagos, the Hon Minister of State for Petroleum, Mr. Timipriye Silva, described a sitting judge of the Federal High Court, Yenagoa Division, Hon Justice Ekwo as a \u201cbad egg that deserves to be flushed out of the judiciary\u201d.<br \/>\n\u201cI have read earlier in the day that on another radio programme, he variously described her as a \u201charlot\u201d.<br \/>\n\u201cMr. Timipriye Silva is not a party to the case pending before the court and he is not a lawyer to any of the parties.<br \/>\n\u201cEven at that, it is uncouth and undignified for a serving Minister of the Federal Republic of Nigeria to descend so low in employing gutter language against a sitting judge.<br \/>\n\u201cIt is the greatest act of contempt against the authority and integrity of the judiciary for a citizen to describe a judicial officer as a bad egg or a harlot, all because a judgment was delivered by the said judge which is considered unfavorable and for which an appeal has already been filed.<br \/>\nWe cannot sit by and watch this flagrant desecration of the temple of justice by people who should serve as role models for others,\u201d he said.<br \/>\nThe human rights activist, therefore, urge the Nigerian Bar Association, the National Judicial Council and the Hon Chief Justice of Nigeria, to proceed against Mr Timipriye Silva urgently, until such a time that he is able to purge himself of the contempt brazenly committed against His Lordship, in the due exercise of a judicial function.<br \/>\nBy <strong>www.thenigerialawyer.com<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Human right activist and a senior lawyer Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa, SAN, has said it is very irresponsible for a serving minister\u00a0of the Federal Republic of Nigeria to call\u00a0a Judge a Harlot. The learned Silk registering his displeasure on Thursday over the negative energies exhibited by the minister of State for Petroleum, Mr Timipriye Silva during [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":16886,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[218,219],"class_list":["post-22542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-adegboruwa","tag-sylva"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22542\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}