The Supreme Court has permanently barred Senior Counsel Ahmednasir Abdullahi from appearing before it. The stated reason for this drastic move is that the lawyer has persisted in his ‘unsubstantiated’ attacks against the apex judicial body.
Therein lies the first problem with the court’s directive. Mr Abdullahi criticism of the Court is chiefly that it is a corrupt institution whose members take bribes. Bribery is by nature a secretive exercise, with a willing giver, willing taker and usually no complainant. It is therefore unreasonable to expect one to ‘substantiate’ bribery allegations. Such can only be inferred from the judges’ decisions.
