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This is me speaking as someone who worked 10 years in a T1 and still consult for them. I go for the parties hosted by law firms. Everyone quietly whispers the same thing.
The judiciary is clogged, underperforming and worse, corrupt. The fix is in. Everyone knows that the best way to serve clients is through ministerial contacts and other means.
Even the law firm elite acknowledge the problem, if you are in the right firm. Nobody dares speak out because there are opportunities on the line and there is community of conflicting interests.
In the long-run thinking like this won't help anyone. Umar in prison is just a symptom. A highly powerful government based discretionary policies is the actual disease.