By Tope Musowo
Lagos
A university don, Prof. Olusegun Yerogun, of faculty of law, National Open University of Nigeria,(NOUN) has described the Nigerian justice system as one mixed with politics, which he said is affecting the course of getting justice in Nigeria.
The Professor of law made this assertion in Lagos while fielding questions from journalists during the launching of his newly published book, “10 Law Case Series”, covering different areas in law, where he was giving his assessment of Nigerian justice system as well as the administration of criminal justice system.
On what motivated the writing of the books, he said:”I have been working on the book since 1966 when I went back to graduate school in the University of London, it was difficult for me getting material to consult while I was writing my thesis and I know a lot of undergraduate law students must be going through the same problem now.
“So I put this together so that students and other professionals can have something to draw knowledge from on constitutional law, evidence, criminal law, law of intellectual property and so on”, he said.
Speaking on why Nigeria Law School has refused to admit law graduates from National Open University of Nigeria, he noted that “the problem is not with the law programme, but the structure. The quality of law programme here is just like in the confessional universities, but the difference is the structure.
“When you go to other universities, you will see the structure I am talking about, NOUN has about 70 centres nationwide running law programmes, this has to be pruned down maybe to the six geo-political zone, you cannot run law in an open university like that”.
In his opening remarks, the Vice Chancellor, National Open University of Nigeria, Professor Abdalla Uba Adamu who was represented by Professor Patrick Iya, stated that the books by Yerokun would go a long way in promoting the legal profession.
