NBA Tackles Enugu Chief Judge As Lawyers Sustain Boycott Over Three-Year Absence Of Judges From Nsukka Courts

The development has forced lawyers and litigants to endure hardship and incur huge financial costs from travelling to Enugu City Centre.

The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) has accused the Chief Judge of Enugu State, Justice Raymond Ozoemena Afojulu, of failing to address the judicial crisis in Enugu North Senatorial District, where judges have refused to sit physically in courts for more than three years.

The development has forced lawyers and litigants to endure hardship and incur huge financial costs from travelling to Enugu City Centre.

The association said the continued absence of judges from their designated judicial divisions in Nsukka and Obollo-Afor had crippled access to justice across the senatorial district and exposed litigants to unnecessary expenses and delays.

In a communique issued after a joint meeting of the NBA Nsukka and Obollo-Afor branches, which was made available to SaharaReporters on Tuesday, the lawyers said they had sustained a boycott of High Court proceedings for over two weeks following what they described as the Chief Judge's refusal to respond to repeated complaints and protests.