The Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Mahmud Mohammed, on Thursday said that the era of appointing unfit and improper persons as judges has gone.
He said that the National Judicial Council’s newly revised guidelines of appointment of judicial officers now in force provides for a more comprehensive, robust and transparent method of appointment.
Justice Mohammed, who spoke at the swearing in of a new Justice of the Supreme Court, Justice Amiru Sanusi, at the Supreme Court Complex in Abuja, said the new guidelines would ensure “the emergence of only the best legal minds, with high moral standards”, to serve as Judges in the nation’s revered temples of justice.
Until his appointment as a Justice of the Supreme Court, Justice Sanusi, who hails from Funtua, Katsina State, was the presiding justice of the Enugu Division of the Court of Appeal.
His appointment raised the number of justices on the apex court’s bench from 17 to 18.