Whatever side one is on it is sad to see so dignified stately and venerable an institution as the judiciary currently assailed by bitter controversy acrimony and social turbulence over the government’s constitutional amendment to extend the retirement age of judges. Accordingly given the impasse created by the government’s mulish obduracy one solution is for all judges who might be the immediate short term beneficiaries of the constitutional amendment to extend the retirement age of judges, to gracefully make a volountary public declaration that whatever the government intends, they for their part will vacate office on the original date on which they were due to retire.