Nsofor Was An Outstanding Justice, Says Buhari, Uzodimma |The Source

The Hon. Justice Slyvanus Adiewere Nsofor, the late Nigeria Ambassador to the United States of America, was on Thursday laid to rest at his home town, Umudei Village in Oguta Local Government Area of Imo State, Nigeria.

At the funeral,  both President Muhammadu Buhari and Governor Hope Uzodimma of Imo State described the late Ambassador and Jurist,  as outstanding.

 Addressing the congregation at the end of the funeral Mass in his honour, President Buhari in his condolence message read by the Governor Uzodimma, described late Justice Nsofor as “an outstanding Judge of a rare breed who was well known for his courage, dedication, transparency, honesty, trustworthy and sense of justice and fairness.”

Buhari said  the late Ambassador to the United States “served the country diligently and positively, projected the image of the country.”

In his address at the valedictory court session held at Court of Appeal Owerri Division earlier in the day, Uzodimma described late Justice Nsofor as an “outstanding judge of exemplary courage who stood firmly for the truth like the Rock of Gibraltar, always ready to dispense justice no matter whose ox is gored.”

He said he was  a shining light in the Judiciary whose judgments at the Court of Appeal “clearly demonstrated that Justice Nsofor was not afraid to voice out his conviction based on point of law hence his consistency as a judge for 28 years endeared him to many Nigerians and the world in general.”

In his funeral oration, a son of late Justice Nsofor, Mr. Cross Nsofor, said that their father prepared their mind before his death not to “expect so that they will not be disappointed or ask so that they will not be denied”. 

He informed that the late Jurist was self contented with what he had, was never moved by worldly things nor primitive acquisition of wealth and properties, hence as a Judge spoke and defended the truth. 

Nsofor, a retired Judge of the Court of Appeal, died recently in the United States of America, just before his replacement was announced by President Buhari who, surprisingly,  appointed him Ambassador in 2015, given his age. He was in his early 80s when he was appointed the Ambassador to the United States.