Yesterday 20th February, majority of judges in Ikeja division of the
Lagos State High Court, conducted their proceedings in darkness due to
persistent power outage.
The reason for this is that the persistent power outage in the court in the past one week got to its peak, because the courts could not initially sit until about 11 am when one of the power generating sets for the building was switched on.
Thirty minutes after the power was brought back, the generating set went off, prompting some of the judges to stall their proceedings.
Judges who were conducting their cases, however, opted to continue proceedings with torchlights to conclude their cases.
One of the judges, continued proceedings with a torchlight to avoid disruption.
Lawyers who were in the court were not left out as they were forced to use lights from their phones since the courtroom was in pitch darkness.
However, the judge rose about 10 minutes after he was unable to continue with the proceedings.
At press time, all the courtrooms were still in darkness.
A senior official of the court told journalists under the condition of anonymity that the court premises had since been cut off from power supply.
The official said the court took the decision following huge bills for the court even when there was no electricity supply for weeks.
The official also said the two generating sets in the court had been faulty in the past one month.
I cannot understand how a high court will be cut off power supply and
there are no working standby generator sets. This and much more only
happens in our great country Nigeria.
Meanwhile, Governor Fashola, I know you're busy with many pressing issues, eg concentrating on banning tight, boob revealing clothes among civil servants, etc, but please, can you look into providing electricity for the high court?
Thank you sir. Eko oni baje o!
Obaje Ti!!!
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