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How BVN Exposed Corrupt Judges Arrested By DSS by Nobody: 11:27am On Oct 10, 2016 |
Sources within the Department of
State Security (DSS) have revealed
that the implemented Bank
Verification Number (BVN) was
responsible for its operative to trace
several millions to alleged corrupt
judges who are currently in its
custody.
Recall that seven judges- Justice
Inyang Okoro and Sylvester Ngwuta
of the Supreme Court; Adeniyi
Ademola of the Federal High Court,
Abuja; Kabir Auta of the Kano High
Court; Muazu Pindiga of Gombe High
Court, Mohammed Tsamiya of the
Court of Appeal in Ilorin, and the Chief
Judge of Enugu State, I. A. Umezulike-
have been arrested and currently in
detention at the SSS office.
In a report by Vanguard newspaper,
DSS access to the bank accounts of the
detained judges and revealed that
they had been taking bribes from
many sources in the discharge of their
duties but used the names and
pictures of their wives, children and
siblings to open such banks account. |
Re: How BVN Exposed Corrupt Judges Arrested By DSS by Nobody: 11:30am On Oct 10, 2016 |
“When we brought in most of the
children, wives and relatives of the
suspects based on the papers we got
from the banks, they did not even
have an idea that their names had
been used by the judges to open such
accounts.
“But you see under the Bank
Verification Number, you must put in
your passports, name, signature and
others. So, for some of the judges,
who used fake names and their wives
names to open the accounts into which
they paid in the proceeds of crime,
they foolishly appended their
signatures or used their pictures,
something that gave them out.
“From what we have found out, some
of the suspects acted foolishly in
committing the offence because they
cannot prove that even if their
children were to earn N1 million
monthly since they were born till
date, none of them can accumulate
the amount of money we have traced
to their accounts and the type of
property they have.
“Look, it may interest you to know
that one of the two Supreme Court
judges in our custody has a property
worth N1.5 billion in one of the South-
South states. If we may ask, where did
he get the money to set up such
project?”
“As far as we are concerned, there is
nothing unusual in arresting corrupt
judges and taking them to court
because it would be an offence
against the nation to continue to turn
a blind eye to mounting corruption in
the judiciary.’’
The report also pointed that another
judge, who is being detained and
questioned, disguised as a shopper in
one of the supermarkets and ended
up collecting bribes in Dollars from a
‘client’ only to be caught on CCTV
camera.
Commenting on the botched arrest of
a judge in Rivers by Governor
Nyesom Wike , the official wondered
what Mr Wike went to do at that time
of the night, if he was not part of the
judge’s deal.
“It was the governor, who blocked the
DSS operatives from seizing the $2
million crime proceeds, which the
judge had made from the PDP crisis
stoked by a faction backed by the
governor.
“But for the our highly professional
operatives and service direction, we
would have beaten up Wike that night
so that he would have explanations to
make on why he went to a crime
scene at odd hours and aided a
suspect to move $2 million crime
proceeds to an unknown location.
“But we already have an idea of
where the money was moved to and
we are going to retrieve it and bring
the judge to trial. As a matter of fact,
we are going to treat the Port
Harcourt FHC judge case as a ‘special
case’, given his collusion with the
governor to obstruct our work. |
Re: How BVN Exposed Corrupt Judges Arrested By DSS by emiwanlee(m): 11:30am On Oct 10, 2016 |
Story for the gods |
Re: How BVN Exposed Corrupt Judges Arrested By DSS by Nobody: 11:36am On Oct 10, 2016 |
“The behaviour of the judge has
worsened his case. In the last three
months, the judge has been going
across the Nigerian borders with other
countries collecting bribes for himself
and others.’’
The source also indicated that the
judges might be allowed to go home
as soon as they answered the
questions put to them by the
operatives, adding that they were
being given royal treatment, in view
of their status and the need to give
them a conducive atmosphere to
speak up.
Meanwhile, Police authorities is set to
sanction the commissioner of police in
Rivers state , Francis Odesanya for his
role in the foiled arrest of a judge of
the Federal High Court, Port Harcourt
by Rivers state governor, Nyesome
Wike. |
Re: How BVN Exposed Corrupt Judges Arrested By DSS by Mynd44: 11:38am On Oct 10, 2016 |
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