Naira Crisis: Supreme Court Lament Heavy Workload as Nigerian Govs Serves FG With Fresh Lawsuit
- The Supreme Court of Nigeria has affirmed it has it's own headache that it is battling with asides the nation's problems
- The apex court noted that its workload in recent times is a result of the gaps in the Nigeria constitution
- While attending to the case filed by the states against the federal government over the naira redesign policy, the court decried it is being burdened with irrelevant cases in its jurisdiction
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A lot is happening in the country as the scarcity of naira bites harder, a few days before the 2023 presidential election.
On Wedneday, February 22, the Supreme Court complained against the workload of the court which it attributed to gaps in the Nigeria constitution, a report by Daily Trust confirmed.
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State governments drag FG to cour over naira redesign policy
The presiding justice of the seven-member panel hearing the suit by states against the federal government over the naira redesign and swap policy, Justice Inyang Okoro, said on Wednesday that the apex court was being burdened with cases that ought not to get there.
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He said the National Assembly did not pay attention to important areas in its amendment of the constition, except things that matter to them.
He said,
“A wife slaps the husband, they will come to the Supreme Court, for what, something that the head of the family can sort it out, you bring it to the Supreme Court?
“Landlord and tenant are quarrelling, it goes to the Supreme Court.
“Those who have the opportunity to influence our constitution should do something.”
Naira policy: "Buhari’s order against Supreme Court could lead to chaos, anarchy," Ozekhome raises alarm
President Muhammadu Buhari had earlier been accused of exhibiting tendencies of a military tyrant in a democratic dispensation.
The allegation was made by a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Mike Ozekhome, on Friday, February 17.
Ozekhome condemned the president's order countering a Supreme Court's ruling on the new naira redesign policy.
Naira scarcity: Another Top APC governor joins El-Rufai, Ganduje, kicks against Buhari, Emefiele's policy
The Lagos state government had joined some other state governors to condemn the new naira redesign policy of the Central Bank of Nigeria led by Godwin Emefiele.
The Lagos State Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice, Moyosore Onigbanjo (SAN), said rejecting the old notes contradicts the Supreme Court’s stand.
Onigbanjo condemned President Muhammadu Buhari's February 16 broadcast message, which approved that only the old N200 notes remain legal tender.
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