A new twist has been added to the on-going investigation of
judges being accused of corruption.
This time, Hon. Justice John Inyang Okoro of the Supreme
Court has alleged that he was being victimized over his
refusal to do the bidding of the All Progressives Congress,
APC, in the election appeal cases as it concerned Rivers,
Akwa Ibom and Abia States.
The Justice of the apex court in a letter to the Chief Justice
of Nigeria, CJN, alleged that former Rivers Governor and
now transport minister, Rt. Hon Rotimi Amaechi specifically
visited him and asked that the judgement be delivered in
APC’s favour.
The letter reads in full:
On Friday, the 7th day of October, 2016, at about 9.00pm, I
received a phone call from an unfamiliar caller. He
introduced himself as an official from the Presidency. He
told me he had a letter for me from Mr President. I
immediately left my study room and went to open the door.
Upon the door being opened, I saw so many heavily armed
men with an inscription “DSS” on their uniform. One of
them who was in mufti told me they were to search my
house. I requested that I be allowed to inform the Chief
Justice of Nigeria but they rebuffed, rather, they seized my
phone from me.
My Lord, the operatives of the Department of State Security
searched all the rooms in the house meticulously. They
also searched the boy’s quarters and my official vehicles
parked outside. At the end of the search, which lasted till
about 1.30am of 8th October, 2016, they took away the
following items.
1. One (1) IPad
2. Three phones (only one active)
3. USD 38,800 (Thirty eight thousand, eight hundred
dollars)
4. N3.5 (Three million, five hundred thousand Naira) only
5. Cheque books (Four in number)
The above items were documented on the back page of the
search warrant they produced and we signed.

Also, the DSS operatives informed me that their Director-
General wanted to see me that night. I requested to visit
their office upon the break of the day but they refused. In
view of the presence of the heavily armed men who
accompanied them and who were pointing their gun at me
from all angles, I had no choice than to follow them to their
office that night. I was detained by them in their office till
Sunday, 9th October, 2016 and upon your Lordship’s
intervention that Sunday, they released me in the evening of
that Sunday.
My Lord, I noticed that they also brought other judicial
officers (serving and retired) to their office. So, before
releasing us, they asked me to make a statement
concerning the money found in my house. I told them that
having received the sum of USD 24,000.00 (Twenty four
thousand dollars) and £10,000 (Ten thousand pounds) a
year for the past three years of my sojourn in this court as
annual medical/vacation allowances, and having not spent
more than £5,000 (Five thousand pounds) on each of three
trips I have so far made abroad, I was entitled to have more
than the amount recovered from me. Put differently, My
Lord, the money was the balance of my estacode received
from this court for the past three years. This is quite
outside the estacodes I have received for the International
Conferences I have so far attended since joining the bench
of this court.

Lord, as at the time of writing this report, the DSS has not
confronted me with any petition or complaint from any
quarters whatsoever. Rather, they have grilled me, asking
questions on some none existing properties around the
country. They have also doubted the age of my children
alleging that they are toddlers. This is sad and
unbelievable.
My Lord, I strongly believe that they my travail is not
unconnected with the verbal report I made to you on 1st
February, 2016 about the visit to my official residence by H/
E, Rotimi Amaechi, former Governor of Rivers State and
now Minister of Transportation. In that report, I told you My
Lord, that Mr Amaechi said that the President of Nigeria
and the All Progressives Congress mandated him to inform
me that they must win their election Appeals in respect of
Rivers State, Akwa Ibom State and Abia State at all costs.
For Akwa Ibom State, he alleged that he sponsored Mr
Umana Umana, candidate of All Progressives Congress for
that election and that if he lost Akwa Ibom appeal, he would
have lost a fortune. Mr Amaechi also said that he had
already visited you and that you had agreed to make me a
member of the panel that would hear the appeals. He
further told me that Mr. Umana would be paying me
millions of Naira monthly if I co-operated with them. My
response, as I told you on that date was that it does not lie
with my power to grant his request and that I would do all
within my power not to be in the panel for Akwa Ibom
State. My Lord graciously left me out of the panel for Akwa
Ibom State. That notwithstanding, the All Progressives
Congress in Akwa Ibom State which lost the appeal at the
Supreme Court believe that my presence in the Supreme
Court made them to lose the appeal. Could I have resigned
from the Supreme Court simply because people of Akwa
Ibom State had a matter before it?
My Lord will recall that I also reported that Mr. Umana
Umana visited my residence before Amaechi’s visit. He
also made the same request of assistance to win the appeal at the Supreme Court. Mr. Umana talked about “seeing” the Justices who would hear the appeal. Pastor (Dr) Ebebe Ukpong who led Mr. Umana Umana to my house
intercepted and said that the issue of “seeing” the justices
was not part of their visit and that as a Pastor, he would not
be part of such a discussion. Mr Umana apologized. I
advised them to go and pray about the matter and get a
good lawyer. That was how they left my house.
My Lord, up till now, I do not know what I have done. Over
the years, from the Magistracy till date, I have done my
best to eschew all forms of corrupt practices. I have not
received any bribe from anybody. My Lord is quite aware of
my position as regards those who take bribe in the
judiciary. I detest it and have no room for any adjustment.
That is the truth.
I urge my Lord and the National Judicial Council to
disregard all the lies and media campaign orchestrated by
those who felt I purposely refused to help them win their
election appeals in the Supreme Court. I am confident that
God will vindicate me at the end of this ordeal. I remain
loyal to my oath of office and the need to be just and fair in
handling matters before me.

My Lord, thanks for your kind attention.
Please, accept my assurances of the highest regards.
Hon. Justice John Inyang Okoro,
Justice, Supreme Court.

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Answer for the money they found in your room, stop calling Amachi inside Akwa ibom election, wetin they worry you naaaaaaa, RT Amachi be Calabar man?