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Cross River State Governor, Benedict Ayade has said there are too many litigations in Court of Law due to lawyers who always push clients to file a case even when such people have no case.

Benedict Ayade made the statement yesterday at the Thanksgiving service to mark the beginning of a new legal year for the judicial officers in Cross River; according to statement issued by the governor, made available today.

Benedict Ayade also said the law allowed a situation where some items will be taken from a man with 100 yams that rightfully belongs to him and be given to his brother who have none.

Benedict Ayade said judicial offiicers should know when people approach them for litigations, it is their duty to use the first option of alternative resolution.

“As different people come before them as judicial officers for litigations, it is their duty to know that their first option is alternative conflict resolution.

“The number of litigations is becoming too much.

“Even when clients have no case, it is lawyers that always urge them on.

“Divine wisdom allows them to be very ecclesiastic as they advise their innocent clients”, the governor said.

Benedict Ayade said lawyers who engaged in such practices have no business being on the bench because; according to him, the way and manner the rule of law is planned and arranged denies them the moral conscience and the knowledge of law.

“For me, they have no business being on the bench because the codification of laws denies them the luxury of application of jurisprudence and moral conscience.

“The codification of laws does not allow them to ask themselves what is fair because they have to seek a section of the relevant laws to defend their decisions. But the reality is that even in our own constitution, there are provisions for the application of jurisprudence.

“The decision to strip a state that had only 76 oil wells and give the same oil wells to a state that already had thousands of oil wells was not okay. Are there provisions in the law that can defend that?

“Jurisprudence will insist that you can take rightfully from a man who has 100 yams, even though the yams rightfully belong to him, and give to his brother who has none.

“It is allowed in law. Divine wisdom comes to play because intellectual wisdom is not enough, common sense is not enough. For we lawyers, we must have conscience, we must have morality.

“I also used the occasion to reiterat my support for judicial autonomy. That’s the reason I signed the bill granting autonomy to judiciary in the state into law. Judicial autonomy is necessary for effective dispensation of justice”, the governor added.

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