Judicial corruption, our collective connivance

At long last, the cat is out and the video has been screened. The last few weeks have been very eventful with the expose of purported massive corruption among the judiciary. Interestingly, we had all been aware in one way or the other that things were not quite well in the judiciary. Some outspoken lawyers had condemned corruption in the past. We recall Raymond Attuguba and Chris Ackumey. But somehow we looked on, condoned and connived, or perhaps helplessly, until Anas gave us a rude awakening, vindicated Raymond and Chris and intimated that we cannot fully trust the judgments of past cases, whether low profile or high profile. Of course, we doff our hats for the genuine, sincere and incorruptible ones among the judges.

It is like the police and bribes on the road. Who does not know bribery does happen, yet if you raise the issue, the police themselves will ask you: where is your evidence? The question is legitimate but the point is that if they really mean to stem the corr