Senate has passed a resolution urging the Federal Government to consider measures towards immortalising the late Justice Chukwudifu Oputa, who died Sunday last week, at the age of ninety.
The Senate which observed a minute silence in honour of the late jurist, also passed a resolution to send a special Senate delegation to console the family of the late Oputa.
Following a motion in relation to the death of Justice Oputa, which was sponsored by the Senator representing Imo West on the platform of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Hope Uzodinma.
In the motion, Uzodinma observed that Oputa, in his life time, served Nigeria diligently in many capacities, even before independence in 1960.
To also noted that at the Supreme Court, Justice Oputa manifested his profound intellect for equity and justice, as showcased in his balanced judgements.
“He was a principal participant in the Golden Age of the Court when the Supreme Court earned a reputation for itself as a veritable citadel of adjudicatory excellence and integrity”, Uzodinma said.
He also recalled that as a result of his untainted reputation in the legal profession and the enormous respect he commands throughout Nigeria, he was given another daunting national assignment under former President Olusegun Obasanjo, to chair the Human Right Violations Investigation Commission.
While highlighting the good qualities of the late Justice Oputa, chairman of the Senate Committee on Rules and Business, Etah Enang, described the late Oputa as a detribalised Nigerian, who always considered the interest of all.
He said Justice Oputa, during his life time as a justice, had always approached the justice system with human face, without undermining the quality of the legal judgement in a case.
Also speaking, Uche Chukwumerije said Justice Oputa was gifted with long memory and intellectual prowes, even as he described him as a liberal person who considers the interests and aspiration of others.