THE Ijaw Lawyers Forum (ILF), an umbrella body of legal practitioners of Ijaw extraction, stormed Bomadi, headquarters of Bomadi Local Government Area of Delta State, on a solidarity visit to the Chairman of Local Government, Hon. Dagidi Andaye, over his administration’s intervention and taking over of the State High Court rehabilitation project.
Hon. Andaye, on assumption of office, intervened and took over the renovation of the dilapidated High Court hall, reconstruction of the high court access road and the initiation and building of a judge’s residence within the court complex.
While being conducted round the high court projects and various other projects within the Bomadi municipality, embarked upon by the Andaye-led administration within three months in office, the lawyers expressed happiness and commended the council chairman for the great feat at the grassroots.
Briefing newsmen shortly after the project inspection, the most senior lawyer, Barr Collins Gesikeme Akebofa, who led his colleagues for the August visit, expressed profound joy and appreciation to the chairman of council and his executive for a job well done.
He said: “We want to express our deepest appreciation to the chairman of Bomadi Local Government Area for a job well done. For an administration that came on board just three months ago to have achieved this feat, we, the lawyers of Ijaw nation, are more than proud of the chairman of Bomadi Local Government Area.
“Before now, we heard our judges posted here are not willing to reside here. But right now, we are standing before an edifice being constructed by the chairman of council for the judge to reside here, we are seeing the access road under construction, we are seeing the ongoing renovation of the court hall and we are sure that, that dilapidated structure over there (a building overgrown by weeds) will be revamped to become, may be, a building for the staff of the court.
“We have seen many other ongoing projects, we have seen no less than ten different projects all running into hundreds of millions of naira, but the high court projects are our primary concern, all of which are being embarked upon by a local government council. We are seeing what ordinarily we didn’t believe in a hurry that it’s feasible, but we’re seeing it now.
“Until you see things for yourself, if you are a naysayer from a distance, then that is more or less criminal because you have defined yourself to be one.
