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NJC recalls Justices Ademola, Okoro, 4 others after FG failed to prove them corrupt

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Six judges whose homes were raided by the Department of State Security (DSS) and arrested last year over corruption allegation, have been asked to return to the courtroom.

The National Judicial Council asked the six judges who were suspended last October to return to work next Wednesday since the Federal Government failed to prove the corruption allegations it levelled against them.

The judges who were recalled are Justice Inyang Okoro of the Supreme Court; Justice Uwani Abba Aji of the Court of Appeal; and Justice Hydiazira Nganjiwa of the Federal High Court.

The rest are Justice Adeniyi Ademola of the Federal High Court, (who was discharged and acquitted of the charges levelled against him), Justice Musa Kurya of the Federal High Court; and Justice Agbadu James Fishim of the National Industrial Court of Nigeria.

Disclosing this in a statement on Saturday, the NJC said that it had during its meeting on June 1, 2017, ordered the judges to resume duties since the Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami (SAN), failed to charge five of the six judges with any offence as he indicated to the council about eight months ago.

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The statement released and signed by the NJC’s director of information, Mr. Soji Oye, cleared that Justice Ademola was asked to
return because he has been charged and prosecuted but was discharged and acquitted by the trial court.

The NJC said that of the eight judges the Federal Government said it was going to prosecute for corruption, only three of them were charged.

The three were Ademola who had been freed of any wrongdoing, Justice
Sylvester Ngwuta of the Supreme Court and Justice Rita Ofili-Ajumogobia who are still undergoing trial.

 

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  1. Oise Oikelomen

    June 3, 2017 at 9:26 pm

    Government of propaganda and deceit. When DSS carried out their mid-night, Gestapo style raid on the judges last year, a lot of NIgerians ignored the apparently pertinent questions that should have been asked. That ill advised raid was meant to achieve two things primarily: 1. Put the judiciary in bad light, and hence confirm PMB’s claim that the Judiciary is his biggest problem in the fight against corruption. 2. Further paint the image of this administration as a hard charging, no nonsense anti corruption government. Now that the FG has failed to charge several of the cases to court, and have started losing the few ones they have charged, it is becoming clear that they are only just fooling themselves upandan. Good thing NJC indulged the FG by suspending the accused judges.

    • seyi jelili

      June 5, 2017 at 1:28 pm

      Forget your thrash, the judiciary is blantantly corrupt and there is no doubts about that. Just that the alleged judges were politically arrested

      • Oise Oikelomen

        June 5, 2017 at 1:52 pm

        That’s my point exactly. That their arrest was purely political, and not a genuine effort to fight corruption in the judiciary. And true, the judiciary is “blatantly corrupt”, as are all Nigerian institutions. By the way, we can have public discourse without so much animosity and aggression. There was no need for you to dismiss my opinion as “thrash”, especially seeing that there isn’t much difference in our view point.

  2. yanju omotodun

    June 4, 2017 at 1:24 pm

    Shame on the NJC, is that how they should have done? I pity the Nigeria judiciary . Why the quick recall or don’t we have better judges again in the judiciary that warranted their recall

    • JOHNSON PETER

      June 6, 2017 at 12:15 am

      No shame, they did the right thing, these judges were not guilty, so why keeping them at home sitting doing nothing

  3. Animashaun Ayodeji

    June 4, 2017 at 6:58 pm

    This EFCC should be sued for false accusations, EFCC don’t have enough proofs to back up their reports, very useless people.

    • Abeni Adebisi

      June 4, 2017 at 7:04 pm

      Who will sue them? The federal government or NJC? EFCC cannot lose any case as long as it remains a tool for the federal government

  4. Anita Kingsley

    June 4, 2017 at 7:01 pm

    The federal government is very useless and deserves to be treated as such. Dealing with justices, the government should have enough evidences to nail them down.

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