The Chief Registrar of the Supreme Court of Nigeria, Mr. Kabir Akanbi, has called on members of the National Association of Judiciary Correspondents to ensure balanced, fair, and objective reporting.
Akanbi made the call while receiving the Executive members of the NAJUC Abuja chapter, who paid him a courtesy visit.
He also asked them to protect the sector’s image and credibility through well-informed, researched, unbiased, and factual reportage of its activities.
He expressed dismay that reports in public space about the judiciary have been disappointing and uncalled for, especially from social media.
Akanbi said judicial officers should not be disrespected, condemned, and rubbished because of the perceived mistakes of the few.
I make bold to say that majority of the judicial officers in the country are men of honour, integrity, highly educated and impeccable characters, who have been discharging their adjudicatory duties without blemish, fear or favour.
“It is very unpatriotic and unfair to label the Judiciary, particularly judicial officers, as generally not living up to expectations of Nigerians in terms of the dispensation of justice, just because of a few lapses,” he said.
He noted that the few identified bad eggs are being called to order through the instrumentality of the National Judicial Council to maintain the sacred duty of the arm of the government.
He said that dishing out sensational reports by some media houses, especially social media, in a bid to gain attention and visibility only ends up robbing the reputation of Nigeria as a country.
“Most of the reports are targeted at few judicial officers and the Bench because they don’t have information officers or personal assistants that will speak in their defence.
“When these reports are reeled out to the public without proper fact checking, the public always believed, and at the end of the day, it is Nigeria as a country that has her name dragged into the mud’’.
He insisted that some of the reports tend to portray the country in bad image and have exposed Nigeria and Nigerians to ridicule and unfair treatment in some foreign countries.
Earlier, the Chairman of NAJUC, Abuja chapter, Mr Kayode Lawal, thanked the Chief Registrar for finding time to play host to the Executive members of the association, adding that the visit was mainly to congratulate him on his appointment as the Chief Registrar.
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