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By Ikechukwu Nnochiri
ABUJA — The Abuja Division of the Federal High Court has been asked to invoke its powers and abort any move by President Goodluck Jonathan to reinstate the suspended President of the Court of Appeal, Justice Isa Ayo Salami.

Salami was on August 18, 2011, axed from office by the National Judicial Council, NJC, on allegation that he violated the code of conduct for judicial officers in the country by engaging in acts of “judicial misconduct.”

The plaintiff, Mr Noah Ajare, is challenging the powers of the NJC to make such recommendation despite the pendency of the subject matter of the substantive controversy before a competent court of jurisdiction, contending that any action taken by Jonathan in relation to the case would not only amount to sub-judice, but constitute a deliberate affront on the statutory duties of the judiciary.

Aside the NJC, also joined as defendants in the suit, were the President and the Attorney General of the Federation, AGF.

In an originating summons he filed yesterday, Ajare sought a declaration that all the meetings, discussions and recommendations for the reinstatement of Salami by the President, on the recommendations of the NJC, were illegal, unconstitutional, null and void, as the matter is subjudice.

The plaintiff further sought an order of perpetual injunction restraining the defendants, their servants, agents or privies from implementing, discussing and or rectifying the recommendations of the NJC in respect of Justice Salami pending the hearing and determination of pending court actions so as not to create a wrong precedent.

In a 22-paragraph affidavit deposed to by one Omolara Adeogun, the plaintiff said he was not against the reinstatement of Salami, but wanted due process of the law to be followed in order not to set an unhealthy precedent, capable of sustaining such uncanny controversies in the future.

He noted that the matter was no longer personal for the original parties involved, saying it has assumed a national dimension with global attention and as such entails that caution must be observed.

The plaintiff further argued that if there was no extant order of the court, the 1st defendant, Jonathan, may pre-empt the due process of the court.

He stressed that the face-off between the former CJN and the PCA, shook the entire judiciary to its very foundation and climaxed when the PCA instituted a court action against the then CJN at the Federal High Court, saying there was a grave concern among Nigerians particularly at the Bar, concerning the integrity of the judiciary.

The plaintiff, who described the judiciary as the most sacred arm of the three arm of government, said as the last hope of the common man, its sacredness ought to be preserved through the instrumentality of the law and due process.

Meantime, no date has been fixed for the hearing of the case which was yet to be assigned to any judge for adjudication

www.vanguardngr.com/2012/05/jonathan-sued-over-move-to-reinstate-salami/

KANO—A Kano High Court,
yesterday, sentenced to
death, by hanging, Bello
Garba Bello, alias Baba, an
undergraduate of Kano
State University of Science
and Technology for killing
his parents and younger
ones in 2010.
Bello was on September
13, 2010, arrested by
security forces for killing
his father, Garba Bello, a
Director with SSS, his
mum, Habiba Garba,
younger sisters, Hafsat
and Murjanatu Garba and
his younger brother
Khalifa, in cold blood at
their family house on Zoo
Road by Gandun Albasa
Quarters in Kano
metropolis.
The judge, Justice Haliru
Abdullahi, said he was
satisfied with the evidence
tendered before him that
the accused actually
committed the five-count
charge of homicide for
which he was charged.
In his judgment, Justice
Abdullahi said: “In the
end, I found the accused
guilty on the five-count
charge and hereby convict
him accordingly on each of
the five counts.”
Justice Abdullahi, in a 66-
page judgment, held that
the five victims were killed
as a result of various
degrees of multiple injuries
inflicted on them by the
accused person contrary
to section 221 of the
Penal Code.
Justice Abdullahi stated
that “in the light of the
foregoing, I found that the
prosecution has proved its
case beyond reasonable
doubt against the accused
person on all the five-
count charge. I hereby
sentence the convict to
death on each count and
he shall therefore be
hanged by the neck until
he is dead.”
The prosecution counsel,
Shu‘aibu Sule, said the
accused had confessed to
have committed the
offence in a written
statement he made to the
police on September 15,
2010.
He presented seven
witnesses before the
court including the
younger brother of the
accused, Farouk, whose
testimonies supported the
charges against the
defendant.
The defence counsel, Mr.
Ahmed Raji, had tendered
a 17-page written address
before the court
explaining the
circumstances leading to
the death of the five
persons and exonerating
the accused from the
charges preferred against
him.
According to him, the
statement written by
Farouk implicating the
accused was inadmissible
as the witness was below
the age of 14 and that
Bello Garba had earlier
written a statement on
September 14, 2010
exonerating himself before
he was forced to write
another one on September
15, 2010 confessing to the
offence.
www.vanguardngr.com/2012/05/varsity-student-to-die-by-hanging-for-killing-parents-siblings/

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