Anambra Residents Eulogise Justice Oputa

Anambra residents
have expressed their sympathy over the death of a former Supreme Court Judge, Justice Chukwudifu Oputa, who died on Sunday.
Some of residents, who spoke in Awka lsat Tuesday, acknowledged that the late Oputa would be remembered mostly as head of Oputa panel.
Chief Godwin Ezeemo, the gubernatorial candidate, Progressive People’s Alliance (PPA), said that the country had lost a judicial icon.
“Justice Oputa was a fearless judge who prefers good name to bags of money and wealth. He was courageous and stood for the truth.
“He was a forthright and incorruptible judge that left indelible and unequalled achievements in the sand of time,” Ezeemo said
Ezeemo urged members of the legal profession to emulate the late jurist and live up to the ethnics of their profession.
A legal practitioner, Mr Bona Orakwue, described the deceased as ‘a role model’ whose performances made him to join the legal profession.
Orakwue urged members of his family to take solace in the fact that their father lived a life worthy of emulation.
Another lawyer with the INEC in Anambra, Mrs Nneka Enendu, described the late Oputa as ‘a fearless judge who was thorough in doing his work as a lawyer’.
A civil servant, Mr Christopher Okigbo, said that jurists with the qualities of the deceased was rare, and called on the judiciary to learn from his footprints.