One Nigeria’s most controversial entertainers, Charles Oputa, popularly known as Charlyboy waxed poetic on Tuesday as he laments the decay in the country’s judiciary.
He opened the lamentation with a poem by Niyi Osundare, one of the country’s most prolific poets.

“The “Temple of Justice” Is broken in every brick. The roof is roundly perforated. By termites of graft. My Lord. By Niyi Osundare,” he tweeted along with a photo of his late father, Justice Chukwudifu Oputa.

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Charlyboy’s father was a renowned Nigerian Judge. He led the Oputa Panel, also known as the Human Rights Violations Investigations Commission, formed on June 14, 1999 by President Obasanjo as a Truth Commission to heal the wounds of the past and move beyond them through reconciliation based on knowledge of the truth. The commission received over 10,000 petitions and heard about 340 cases.

The tweets that followed the Niyi Osundare lines were either original from Charlyboy or adapted from other poets but the most important thing is that it speaks to the current situation of the country.

He tweeted: “Daddy, see how dem spoil your house.
The “last hope of the common man”
Has become the last bastion of the criminally rich
A terrible plague bestrides the land
Besieged by rapacious judges and venal lawyers

Daddy, see how dem spoil your house.
The “last hope of the common man”
Has become the last bastion of the criminally rich

Behind the antiquated wig
And the slavish glove
The penguin gown and the obfuscating jargon
Is a rot and riot whose stench is choking the land
Behind the rituals and roted rigmaroles
Old antics connive with new tricks

Behind the prim-and-proper costumes of masquerades
Corruption stands, naked, in its insolent impunity
For sale to the highest bidder
Interlocutory and perpetual injunctions
Opulent criminals shop for pliant judges

Protect the criminal, enshrine the crime
And Election Petition Tribunals
Ah, bless those goldmines and bottomless booties!
Scoundrel vote-riggers romp to electoral victory
All hail our buyable Bench and conniving Bar.

My people, let’s reject bad leadership, reject tribalism, reject mediocrity, reject misperformance, reject a mismanaged government. E don do.

The “Temple of Justice”
Is broken in every brick
The roof is roundly perforated
By termites of graft
My Lord

By Niyi Osundare pic.twitter.com/NwyfF6ukuN

— Charlyboy(Official) (@Areafada1) November 1, 2016