₦airaland Forum

ifyalways:
Who says this is fighting corruption?

How are we sure this is not a circus show aimed at arm twisting the judges to dance to the tunes of certain people or party

As usual, the phoooolish are all over the place, having orgas.mms with this news without asking themselves the most important question which is : what has come out of atleast one of the phantom corruption cases.

Of course, this move will trend for a week or two then be forgotten as usual as the next propaganda is brewed and served.

Chai APC came prepared, they have the magic mumu formula.

Last Monday was PEJ and her phantom millions of usd's trending. What came out of it? Dunno which is more pathetic ; the lies or the phoools swallowing the lies. Tufiakwa

PaulIdu:
Arrest them all . The judiciary cannot afford to be a place where corruption is traded like bread and butter ..Any well meaning Nigerian will endorse this

thunder74:
Nobody is against fight against corruption, it is the mode and selective approach and the manner it is carried out. Many of us want holistic approach without any sacred cows bc of ethnicity, party or religious affinity. Your poll should rather be:

Like if you oppose the way Buhari is fighting corruption and share if you like its style.

jesse8048:
Hop dis is not all about intimidating and silencing them. I just dnt understand this country again.

He said the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) which earlier condemned the DSS operation, “should have the courage to take us to court.”
He said the DSS intervened because it had the mandate to protect the internal security of the country.

“No any other agency is constitutionality mandated to handle the issues of subversion, sabotage and espionage apart from us,” he said.

OBAGADAFFI:
The National Judicial Council (NJC) had earlier recommended the sack of justices Auta, Tsamiya and Umezulike for alleged corrupt activities. But the security chief said that was not enough, adding, “The NJC gave soft landing to the three judges. What happened to the proceeds of crime running into hundreds of millions?”




So the NJC didn't give the DSS green light to carry out the raid.
I will be monitoring the trials with keenness.

mapet:
Bros,

Before you turn logic on its head,

Please show us where in law, the DSS requires the green light of the NJC to carry out arrest of judges.

HungerBAD:
Eight more senior judges are under investigation and will soon be arrested by the Department of State Services (DSS) as part of its latest attempt to cleanse the judiciary of corruption, Daily Trust gathered yesterday.

Seven judges were earlier arrested in different states across the country between Friday night and Saturday morning over alleged corrupt practices.

A top official of the service told Daily Trust that the seven senior judges arrested were still in custody and would be arraigned in court any moment.

The judges in custody last night are: Inyang Okoro and Sylvester Ngwuta of the Supreme Court, Adeniyi Ademola of the Federal High Court, Abuja, Kabir Auta of the Kano High Court, Mu’azu Pindiga of the Gombe High Court, Mohammed Tsamiya of the Court of Appeal, Ilorin and the Chief Judge of Enugu State Justice I. A. Umezulike.

The DSS said Saturday that it recovered over N93 million and $530,000 cash from three arrested judges. The source said the judges were allowed access to their families and were cooperating with the agency.

“We still respect them. They are not being treated like common criminals,” he said.

As part of the investigations, three registry staff from various courts were also invited for questioning, the source said.

He added that the corruption cases against the judges were disturbing and investigations were carried out with “facts and figures.”
He said the current clampdown on the judicial officers was based on intelligence, and not on the perception of ordinary Nigerians.
“We received petitions against these judges on cases they are handling.

The worst part of it is where they collected money. We knew the issue would be controversial even before we started,” he said, adding that the corruption in the judiciary was so enormous that some judges took money with both hands from litigants.

“A particular judge entered a departmental store and collected bribe from a go-between. He didn’t even bother to buy anything. He just came out with the money. That is how bad it has become,” he said.

He said Nigeria had lost so much money due to the compromising posture of most of the judges. Citing the corruption cases of Halliburton, Malabu and Siemens, the security chief said: “In the past four years, Nigeria lost multi-million dollars cases against foreigners because of the corruption in the judiciary. Nigeria lost $1.9billion in one swoop case.”

He said those organizations criticizing the current actions of the security outfit had the right to challenge its constitutionality or otherwise in court.
He said the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) which earlier condemned the DSS operation, “should have the courage to take us to court.”
He said the DSS intervened because it had the mandate to protect the internal security of the country.

“No any other agency is constitutionality mandated to handle the issues of subversion, sabotage and espionage apart from us,” he said.

The National Judicial Council (NJC) had earlier recommended the sack of justices Auta, Tsamiya and Umezulike for alleged corrupt activities. But the security chief said that was not enough, adding, “The NJC gave soft landing to the three judges. What happened to the proceeds of crime running into hundreds of millions?”

http://www.dailytrust.com.ng/news/general/dss-to-arrest-8-more-judges-7-still-in-custody/165978.html#i12WAGVz4v6xjfBv.99

OBAGADAFFI:
Did you read the press releases from the DSS.