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Shun corruption, Alaro charges judges, lawyers

By Abubakar Imam

A former Head of the Department of Islamic Law, University of Ilorin, Prof. AbdulRazzaq Abdulmajeed Alaro,  has called on judges and lawyers in the country to shun bribery and corruption in order to redeem the battered image of the nation’s judicial system.

               Prof. Alaro made this appeal penultimate Saturday (July 12, 2025) while speaking at the public presentation of some books written by an alumnus of the University of Ilorin and retired Grand Kadi of Kwara State, Justice Saliu Olohuntoyin Muhammad, at the Ilorin Central Jumaat Mosque, Ilorin.

The renowned cleric-don, who is a Consultant on Islamic Financial Matters to the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), said that the nation’s judiciary has transitioned from being the ‘last hope of the common man’ to a ‘sanctuary of anything goes’, pointing out that only the rich and the powerful appear to be perpetually favoured by a system that has been riddled with corruption.

The award-winning legal luminary added that reports from well-informed local and international agencies confirmed that judgments delivered in the nation’s courts are often heavily influenced.

Prof. Alaro urged judges and lawyers to emulate the professionalism of the author, Justice Muhammad, and the Kuliya of Ilorin, Mallam Yusuf Olaolu Ali, SAN, who he identified as being among the forthright jurists he could vouch for.