•It’s been difficult getting upright judges, he says •Babalakin’s report on corrupt judges to be revisited

JUDGES handling cases of corruption against public officers are under surveillance, Nigerian Tribune learnt on Wednesday.
The monitoring was said to be civil and security in nature.
Chairman, presidential advisory committee on anti-corruption, Professor Itse Sagay, made this known during an exclusive chat.
The surveillance is meant to monitor their performances, professionally, ethically and morally.
The inability of the committee and other partnering government agencies to find upright judges across board, who will handle alleged corruption cases the President Muhammadu Buhari administration would so institute against alleged looters of the economy in the administration of former President Goodluck Jonathan compelled the monitoring, according to Sagay.
Nigerian Tribune had exclusively reported the failure of many nominee-judges for the proposed special looters' courts in the integrity test conducted by security agencies.
Sagay, however, did not reveal the identity of those monitoring the judges.
He disclosed that the rot in the judiciary had made the search for the desired upright judges a Herculean task.
The sought-upright judges are to take off with the planned trial of alleged looters, while the constitution amendment for the establishment of the special looters' courts is being pursued, which Sagay said could run into next year.
The reform being planned in the anti-corruption war would also see anti-corruption agencies being monitored by the advisory body as a way of checking with the inside from the outside.
Sagay's committee may also become the warehouse for petitions for the public before they are sent to the appropriate anti-corruption bodies, after being sieved by the presidential team.
To check corruption within, the committee would also have moles within the anti-corruption bodies for insider information, he said.
According to him, "with all the relevant agencies like EFCC, ICPC and others, we intend to effectively collaborate with them.
"They have nothing to fear. We are not out to take their jobs from them. All this hostility must stop. We have been vested with the powers to recommend people for prosecution. A lot of people who are supposed to welcome us have been hostile. We are here to make their work lighter. All we are going to do is to increase the investigative capacity of these agencies."
He also did not rule out the merger of the existing anti-corruption bodies, though noted that such move would not be immediate, considering the bodies being creations of the constitution.
In order to further cleanse the judiciary which Sagay said stinks right now, Sagay said the popular Eso panel report and Babalakin review panel report, which indicted many judges still in service up till the Supreme Court, would be revisited.
Debunking the insinuation that he was rewarded with the current assignment for saving Governor Rauf Aregbesola from impeachment, Sagay said he weighed in on the Osun matter because Justice Olamide Oloyede brought judiciary into disrepute.
According to him, "Oloyede submitted her claims to the appropriate quarters and nobody is blaming her for this.
"As a judge, you don't bring yourself down. You don't turn yourself into a street fighter who has no care about dignity. These people (judges) have been placed on a pedestal for us to have confidence in them. What she is doing is a show of shame.
"This woman went to the gutter, discarded her robes and effectively walked about naked. She is a disgrace to the judiciary. I am still calling for her exit."
Sagay also disclosed that his committee had not come into any information of a direct wrongdoing by Jonathan, saying that "no evidence has, however, linked Jonathan directly to these alleged crimes but he could be found guilty by reason of presiding over these ministers."

http://tribuneonlineng.com/looters%E2%80%99-trial-fg-put-efcc-icpc-others-under-surveillance-%E2%80%94sagay

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kk

Nice one.. The looters must pay for their crimes

Change change change!!!

We will continue to criticise the president constructively in order to compel him to do the unavoidable.

Buhari's body language at work.

ok then

All well meaning Nigerians, for the love of their children and the sake of their future, need to throw their weight behind this admin. Baba is indeed passionate about charting a new course for the collective emancipation of this country, salvaging it from those dark forces that have held it down for ages.

We had this consensus 90% of the problems we face in the country are symptomatic of the deep seated rot of corruption nurtured by successive administrations. These forces are trying hard, using all means legal and otherwise, to thwart the government's effort at cleansing the system of the rot which only benefits the elites. It pains me no end to see the youths who've no doubt borne the brunt of this incessant pillaging of our common patrimony defend these men so viciously- men whose abode as we speak should be nowhere but some dingy cell in a maximum security prison.

May God guide and protect Buhari as he carries on with this arduous task of rewriting the future path of this nation.

Good governance.

Paschal001:
Nice one.. The looters must pay for their crimes

They must.

Good morning Mr Lalasticlala. Hope you slept well...

I still disagree that Jonathan is innocent, maybe they just want to pardon him

omenka:
All well meaning Nigerians, for the love of their children and the sake of their future, need to throw their weight behind this admin. Baba is indeed passionate about charting a new course for the collective emancipation of this country, salvaging it from those dark forces that have held it down for ages.

We had this consensus 90% of the problems we face in the country are symptomatic of the deep seated rot of corruption nurtured by successive administrations. These forces are trying hard, using all means legal and otherwise, to thwart the government's effort at cleansing the system of the rot which only benefits the elites. It pains me no end to see the youths who've no doubt borne the brunt of this incessant pillaging of our common patrimony defend these men so viciously- men whose abode as we speak should be nowhere but some dingy cell in a maximum security prison.

May God guide and protect Buhari as he carries on with this arduous task of rewriting the future path of this nation.

Story for the gods.Baba is passionate yet Fashola is yet to be invited by the EFCC despite clear evidence of embezzlement of over N100million. He dosent also want to prosecute IBB,and OBJ despite $12.5billion and $16 billion fraud indictment respectively not to talk of his own $2.8 billion in the 70s nor the forgery of WAEC certificate

All this talks and plans and empty threats sef? When will you actually charge someone! Even the biggest elephant in the room is still claiming lie lie cancer in the u.k! Go and determine what her medical records say and if false then fetch her down and get the ball rolling! She is the key! All this demo don do!

chukwudi44:


Story for the gods.Baba is passionate yet Fashola is yet to be invited by the EFCC despite clear evidence of embezzlement of over N100million. He dosent also want to prosecute IBB,and OBJ despite $12.5billion and $16 billion fraud indictment respectively not to talk of his own $2.8 billion in the 70s nor the forgery of WAEC certificate

Shut up.

Some judges are just disgracing the practice of law in Nigeria. Change is here.

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Ain't nothing stopping we believers believing this administration is the best nigerians has ever hoped for .


Disregarding fake nd ubiquitous campaigns. #babagoslow #100wastedays #dauradullard........


In PMB/PYO we trust cuz the wellness has begun

No apologies GEJ e-lords

chukwudi44:


Story for the gods.Baba is passionate yet Fashola is yet to be invited by the EFCC despite clear evidence of embezzlement of over N100million. He dosent also want to prosecute IBB,and OBJ despite $12.5billion and $16 billion fraud indictment respectively not to talk of his own $2.8 billion in the 70s nor the forgery of WAEC certificate

Making sense is definitely not your business...All talking out of point

So FG put EFCC under surveillance because they're probing amaechi or what.??

Izzorite...I am blessed

Government of the to wil shall and might

The bush meat becomes the hunter

The chaser is being chased...

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Nice1

No need for surveillance, Buhari's body language will do d job

Ok

The saying is true though...





...One day, bushmeat go catch d hunter.

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If think those judges, icpc and efcc are the major-general in looting click like

#100WastedDays of Probes on the pages of the national dailies



Na like this we go dey dey?