By Idris Ahmed, Lokoja.
As Kogi Courts resume from this year’s annual vacation and set for the new legal year, the state Judiciary joined Muslim Ummah for special prayers at the Juma’at service in Lokoja Central mosque on Friday.
The Friday service was used to pray for the heads of the three Courts, Judges of High Courts, Qadis of Sharia Court of Appeal and Judges of Customary Courts as well as management and staff of Judiciary for a smooth legal year and God’s guidance.
Similar special prayers session will hold on Sunday at First ECWA Church in Lokoja on Sunday .
A special valedictory and a pecial Court Session would also be held in honour of immediate past Chief Judge of the State, late Justice Nasiru Ajanah, late Justice Ibrahim Atadoga, former President Kogi State Customary Court and Justice Medayese Zacheaous Owonibi .
The Chief Judge of the state, Justice Henry Olusiyi, who was represented by the Grand Kadi, Honourable Abdulkareem A. Aruwa stated that the essence of the special prayers is to kick start the new legal year in Kogi State.
In his sermon during the prayers, a renown Islamic scholar, Utaz Tanko Talle, urged the judges to be truthful in the discharge of their duties, calling on them to always be honest and just in their dealings, to enable them enter paradise on the day of judgement .
Talle explained that every soul will one day give account of their deeds even if not here on earth, definitely in the hereafter, stressing that everyone should tread in righteous part.
It would be recalled that the Kogi state Judiciary has been on annual vacation and scheduled to resume on Monday 28th September .
