•FG arraigns accused judges this week

Barring any unforeseen circumstances, the Federal Government will, this week, arraign all the judges accused of corruption, an authoritative source who prefers anonymity told New Telegraph yesterday.

In a bid to kick-start the trial, the Federal Government has listed politicians, senior lawyers and some bank officials to testify against the judges.The Department of State Service, DSS, had on October 8 and 9, raided the apartments and arrested seven judges over alleged corruption. The judges were consequently released on bail.

The seven judges affected include Justices Sylvester Ngwuta and John Okoro of the Supreme Court; Justice Adeniyi Ademola of the Federal High Court, Abuja, and Justice Muazu Pindiga of the Federal High Court, Gombe Division.

Another Judge of the Abuja Division of the Federal high Court, Justice Nnamdi Dimgba’s residence was also searched, but he was not arrested. Others are Justice Mohammed Tsamiya of the Court of Appeal, Ilorin, and the Chief Judge of Enugu State, I. A. Umezulike. According to the source, the judges would be arraigned in batches. He said: “All is set for arraigning of the judges. The charge is ready and it will be filed this week.

There are several people that were invited by the investigative bodies. Such people are senior lawyers, politicians and even some bankers. Statements have been taken from them, and some of them will testify against the judges.

“Also call logs of some of the judges and the links who brought the bribe for them will also be tendered as evidence against the judges.

Some of their bankers too will be brought as witnesses. “When their trial commences, a lot of revelations will be made and everybody will believe President Muhammadu Buhari was right when he said that the judiciary was his greatest headache”, the source said.

He noted that the FG had started the process by filing criminal charges against the Chief Registrar of the Supreme Court, Gambo Saleh and two others over N2.2 billion scam before an Abuja High Court.

The DSS had, in a statement soon after the raid of the Judges’ houses, given a breakdown of the recovered funds from the judges. The secret service said it recovered N93,558,000.00, $530,087, £25,970, €5,680,1,010 Rupees, 380 UAE Dirham, 430 Gambian Dalasi, among others.

Further, the DSS said that it also recovered from Justice Ademola N54 million, $171, 779.00, £80.00 1,010.00 Rupees and €4,400. It said that it recovered from Justice Ngwuta, N35,208,000, $319,475, £25,890, €280, 380 Gambian Dalasi 420, Argentine notes—420 Ghana Cedis.

The service also said that it recovered from Justice Okoro, N4,350,000, $38, 833, £25,890 and €1,000.00. The security outfit also said that other foreign currencies, banking and real estate documents were recovered. Soon after the DSS stated its position and released the judges, four of them defended themselves of allegations levelled against them by the DSS.

While Justice Ngwuta said that his ordeal was as a result of his refusal to accept the offer by a former Governor of Rivers State and Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi that he (Justice Ngwuta) should set aside the election of Governor Ayo Fayose, Justice Okoro said his arrest was because he never danced to the tune of Minister of Science and Technology, Dr. Ogbonaya Onu.

For Justice Ademola, he submitted that his ordeal was a result of a clash he had with the Attorney General of the Federation, AGF and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, SAN sometime ago.

Justice Kanu submitted in his letter to the CJN that his persecution was as a result of the cases involving the DSS that he is handling.

Alongside, the seven judges, the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) had sent the names of additional six to the secret service for investigation. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission had also invited eight for interrogation.

This has brought the total number of judges under investigation to 21. Speaking on the decision of the NJC sacking the judges under investigation, the source said it was a welcome development, adding that the decision had paved way for the trial to commence.

New Telegraph recalls that the NJC had, on Thursday, asked all the judges accused of corruption to stop performing judicial functions. This was just as the Council set up a three-man anti-corruption policy implementation committee.

According to the Council, Section 6 of the National Judicial Policy aims at putting in place multifaceted strategies and guidelines that will ensure transparency and eliminate corruption in the Judiciary.

“It seeks, amongst other measures, to provide a platform and opportunity to citizens who profess factual and credible knowledge of information on the nature and modalities of corruption in the judicial system to ventilate such.

“Council also decided that Judicial Officers shall not be standing trial for alleged corruption related offences and be performing judicial functions at the same time.

Council, however, decided that it will ensure that Judicial Officers who are being investigated for alleged high profile criminal offences do not perform judicial functions until their cases are concluded”.

Before now, Justices Inyang Okoro and Sylvester Ngwuta, both of the Supreme Court, had voluntarily stepped down from judicial functions. Justices Ademola and Dimgba had, however, continued to sit until the order of the NJC.

https://newtelegraphonline.com/top-lawyers-bankers-others-testify-judges/

waiting till that time comes. lets see their can of worms

Ok

Kill All Corrupt Judges

OK

Good... but innocent until proven guilty.


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This is indeed a PALATABLE news to start the week with

case wey them go soon sweep under the carpet...na begining wey dey always see, we never dey see the end

We are getting there. This will open a lot can of worms.

DSS and raid be like 5&6.
When dem go raid them apc chieftains o.

I thought they have been suspended by NJC as the repercussion.are they still to be prosecuted..well I will love to see judges dealt with just the way they do to others seeing themselves as untouchables.most judges are crazy

Watch how this news will be no news in matter of time.
If judges goes down—Ameachi must!
If Ameachi goes down—hopefully the president must.
...I'm sure they will never want to trend on that path.

All this judges story, na initial gragra.

Saraki story wey roam the court since how many years now, any result? No! Just deceiving the public

If na poor man now, na since dem for pass judgement.

A guy in Ekiti if I'm not mistaken stole ordinary indomie with small onions and pepper. Police no waste time send am go court. Without waisting time he was sentenced to 3 years imprisonment.

If you like—call all the witness in world—as for this very case it won't fly.

Democracy: Government of the rich—for the rich and by the rich. Apalasa!!

Who says Buhari doesn't kn what he is doing?

littlewonders:
Watch how this news will be no news in matter of time.
If judges goes down—Ameachi must!
If Ameachi goes down—hopefully the president must.
...I'm sure they will never want to trend on that path.

All this judges story, na initial gragra.

Saraki story wey roam the court since how many years now, any result? No! Just deceiving the public

If na poor man now, na since dem for pass judgement.

A guy in Ekiti if I'm not mistaken stole ordinary indomie with small onions and pepper. Police no waste time send am go court. Without waisting time he was sentenced to 3 years imprisonment.

If you like—call all the witness in world—as for this very case it won't fly.

Democracy: Government of the rich—for the rich and by the rich. Apalasa!!

i beg to disagree with you...this case might be different from the others

judges can be liking to a dangerous snake which needed to hit hard and subdue it, if given a little space they'll fight back

you remember that is the only business they know how to do ..dogmatic

the best bet is to get them convicted if you treat their case half baked...hehehehe sooner or later they will come after you

Mehn truly this country is extremely corrupt. Imagine a whole judicial system reeking of corruption.
WHO WILL JUDGE THE JUDGE ?

Cc: Nyiesom Wike.

carmag:


i beg to disagree with you...this case might be different from the others

judges can be liking to a dangerous snake which needed to hit hard and subdue it, if given a little space they'll fight back

you remember that is the only business they know how to do ..dogmatic

the best bet is to get them convicted if you treat their case half baked...hehehehe sooner or later they will come after you

You might be right but don't completely believe on that, because in Nigeria we all know the truth and how demented issues should be handle but the spurious operandi of our currupted leaders can tarnish formation of justice.

My analysis came as a result of previous political manipulation and political self-interest by top greedy individuals who claim to represent Nigerians.

Arms crossed—watching how it unfolds.

Corruption must be swept out of our land.




GIVE YOUR SKIN A TREAT, CHECK MY SIGNATURE!

This is Change! Theives testifying against Theives.

THE My 'lords' must surely stand before other lords now.

the hunted hunter

Obviously democracy is not working for us.

As usual on Monday mornings,front page is flooded with news of various deceptive anticorruption campaigns to wet the appetite of zombies and gullible Nigerians.Just to cloud their minds and blind their hearts from the realities on ground.
This case is dead on arrival,in the coming weeks when this case has reached a brick wall,they will come up with another news or political drama to keep us entertained and blinded.
#PoliticalTelemundo

sucreblazing:
case wey them go soon sweep under the carpet...na begining wey dey always see, we never dey see the end

Not this time
The age of kangaroo "Presidential Committee" is over!

Nigeria sef

Okay nao

Mrdecent:
Who says Buhari doesn't kn what he is doing?

only the MUMU's and unawares..

Big hurricane nemesis against corrupt judges,whether guilty or not I pity the way they dented their hard earned goodwills . A good name,they say is better than silver & Gold. Where are likes of Esos & Oputas ? O god help our judiciary !