Elizabeth Karatu, acting chief judge of Kebbi state, has accused Atiku Bagudu, the governor, of refusing to confirm her as substantive judge because of her religious affiliation.

According to Daily Nigerian, Karatu petitioned the National Judicial Council (NJC) over the issue.

Karatu was appointed by Bagudu on October 30, 2017, following the retirement of Bala Mairiga.

He recommended her to the state house of assembly as a replacement for Mairiga but the lawmakers were said to have refused to confirm her appointment over alleged falsification of her primary school certificate.

“This Honorable House will not clear any nominee who comes before it with altered credentials. It is now left for the government to decide on who to send as a nominee to the House,” Abdulmumin Kamba, speaker of the house, had said.

On November 14, 2018, Bagudu resubmitted Karatu’s name to the house for confirmation.

Karatu was reportedly confirmed on January 17, 2019, but the governor refused to act on the assembly’s confirmation.

Karatu is due to retire on July 5 from active service.

“After the retirement of Justice Ibrahim Bala, I was sworn in as Acting Chief Judge being the most Senior Judge. However, before my confirmation, Justice Ambursa engaged in trading with the Governor and the Speaker of the House of Assembly and indeed to the public that I was sponsored by the Christians Association of Nigeria to serve the Christendom,” the petition read.

“He spent a lot of money in forestalling my confirmation at the House, and eventually the house rejected me on the ground of alteration on my certificate which I believed must have been cooked by Justice Ambursa.

“I have been working for 35 years up to the rank of Permanent Secretary and later became a Judge but Justice Ambursa has never complained about my religion, in fact most of his victims are Muslims rather than Christians. I therefore believe that he is just using religion for his person gain. I was a Muslim before and all my Children are still devoted Muslims. I know what Islam is all about; it is religion of peace, fairness and Justice.”

She also reportedly said Mohammed Ambursa, the judge appointed to replace her, played a plot in frustrating her confirmation.

She accused Ramatu Gulma, the state attorney general and “an ally to Justice Ambursa”, of sabotaging the committee of reconciliation set up by the NJC in May to prevail on the governor to confirm her.

According to her, Gulma purportedly painted her as an enemy of the government “because I ordered the detention of family members of the Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo who were suspected to have committed the offence Fraud of Millions of Naira before Chief Magistrate Court in Birnin Kebbi”.

Daily Nigerian quoted Babale Yauri, secretary to the state government, as saying Bagudu refused to confirm Karatu because of “some discrepancies in her credentials” and not her religion.

Yauri added that the letter purportedly sent to the governor by the state assembly is fake as it was not duly signed

onez:
A governor will just wake up and sack the state Chief judge which happens to be his equal. The bad seed sown by Buhari is beginning to manifest. Yesterday it was Onnoghen, today it was karatu. it could be anyone tomorrow.

9jaRealist:


Meanwhile, there’s absolutely NO indication that Justice Okoro’s letter was to the NJC as a body, rather than a direct communication to the CJN (despite the honorifics). For starters, he states in the first paragraph that he has asked the DSS to be allowed to call the CJN (not the NJC) but was refused. He thereafter addresses “My Lord” indicating that he was addressing one person (the CJN), NOT a council or body.
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9jaRealist:


Spot on!

Just as official correspondence to the Supreme Court as a body is routed through (and usually addressed to) the Chief Registrar and not the CJN, official correspondence to the National Judicial Council as a body should go through the NJC’s bureaucracy) and not through the CJN.

Yet again, who is advising the President on these matters?
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5oyad:

All letters to NJC are routed through the secretary. Don’t act too smart mister because you don’t know anything

id911:
I'm I missing something? Is it not the NJC, through the FJSC, that normally recommend Justices to the President for appointment? Why is the President writing to the Ag CJN instead of NJC? I'm kinda confused here

mankand:


Can you see your life in the market? I am neither igbó nor supporter of both parties but I believe in fairness and what is good for the goose is good for the gander.

Truth is bitter

omoadeleye:
But i don't like the idea of bringing one atiste from another state

besti14:
Festus Keyamo SAN, hosts, taunted restriction political gatherings in Nigeria after the consequences of the South Africa Provincial and National decisions were declared by the Independent Electoral Commission yesterday.

President Cyril Ramaphosa was declared the champ of the decision, and keeping in mind that complimenting him, Keyamo expressed that here in Nigeria races are possibly free and reasonable if the restriction on it.

He included that any triumph for decision party is viewed as fixed by the restriction in Nigeria.

In spite of the fact that Keyamo’s remark additionally influenced his central, President Muhammadu Buhari, who before 2015 tested the result of past presidential decisions in court, he went on went on false the People Democratic Party, PDP, and its presidential hopeful, Atiku Abubakar, who are guaranteeing that they transmitted the race results to I-Cloud.

Keyamo, who is likewise an APC legal counselor, tweeted, “Well done, Ramaphosa. Here in Nigeria, decisions are just ‘free and reasonable’ at any dimension if the resistance wins it.

“Any triumph for the decision party is ‘fixed.’ We trust your restriction won’t guarantee that they transmitted another arrangement of results to I-Cloud.”

In the interim, President Ramaphosa has praised South Africans, and the Electoral Commission of SA (IEC) as the nation shuts apart on the sixth national races.

Ramaphosa conveyed the keynote address at the IEC’s outcomes declaration function at the Tshwane showgrounds on Saturday evening.

The IEC executive, Glen Mashinini declared the commonplace and national decision results, in which Ramaphosa’s gathering, the ANC, scored 57.51% of the national votes and held control of eight territories, while the DA clutched the Western Cape.

read more: https://gistok.ng/keyamo-mocks-pdp-as-south-africa-announces-winner-of-presidential-election/

drskyfly007:
Head of Appeal court is married to an APC senator elect..

So it was expected..

Any one challenging the FG should just forget about the appeal court and pray for a miracle at the supreme court.

Edodefender:
They are so many but don't have a since house of representatives member not to talk of senate? They are not governor or deputy or speaker or chief of staff?

Even delta state now has a Muslim senator but not Edo state.

Islam come to Edo state to die.

GavelSlam:
Exercise in futility.

Your resignation is belated, reactionary, dubious and disrespectful.

Your actions have been duplicitous and cowardly.

Your resignation as an afterthought would handled as an afterthought.

Suegbe.

He said; “We are not accusing him of having $300m in his accounts. What we are saying is that he failed to declare his assets on his appointment as Justice of Supreme Court and that he operated domiciliary accounts since 2009 and 2010 without declaring them.”

soulpeppersoup:


First you don't know what an office mean. What you see is a man but what the law and those whom you think were trying to frustrate the government saw was the sit where the man was sitting.

They tried to prevent a humiliation of the sit of the CJN. What you people applaud today will be what other will use to destroy this nation.

The law always make references to support their point of view. In respect to humiliating the sit of the CJN, the have seen one.

9jatriot:
The case against Onnoghen if we are to believe the media onslaught is becoming watering. He seems to have iron cast alibi for all the accusations.

Yet something does not seem right. First of all, he suspended the meeting of the NJC indefinitely, the meeting was not even going to be primarily about him but a routine meeting that could probably, I mean probably had have a look at the allegations against him and act on it based on the merit of the allegation. Yet he did not just postpone the meeting to another day, instead he postponed the meeting indefinitely.

Then rather than show up at the tribunal, he deploy all the techniques we have come to associate with politicians, people like Melaye, Metuh and FFK. He even went as far as saying he could not come to court because of tooth ache. Then when the case finally starts he seems to suddenly have a defence for all the allegations. Something just does not add up.

Now I am thinking, it is possible the man really has skeleton in his cupboard that he thought the FG had discovered and so he was reacting to that only to discover that all that the FG had was the far lesser charge that he could explain. I am likening it to when a parent shouts the name of his kids in a manner that suggest that the parents has discovered he bashed his car, and the child comes to the presence of his parents ready to beg for forgiveness only for the parents to be angry that the sitting room is not well arranged. Although not arranging the sitting room in this context may be considered an offence, but it will be an offence the child will gladly accept than the more serious offence of having dented the family car.

I think the FG were probably very close to discovering something about Onnoghen which he initially thought was what they had on him otherwise this whole process makes no sense.

yaki84:

i dnt need to google what step means...

likewise dnt need to google wht a fool is....

u dnt expect me to google simple n basic things.


i might be dull in understanding ur foolishness but u r too foolish to knw u r dull.

ciao

ImDStar:


I can't agree less with your submission, I have said this several times that the slot belong to the East, are they not part of this country again?
I expect my people to support Igbo Presidency in the spirit of fairness jare, let's be sincere with ourselves once in a while pls.

SW 8 years Presidency + another possible 8years of Vice President, and you think SE region don't deserve it ?

God forbid, I can't be supporting such evil against my fellow man in the name of regional interest.

pauloman:
I just read this Piece (From Sahara Reporters) thought i should share.Please leave your comments on this write up. Enjoy...





I am a citizen of Canada.


I came to Canada in 1998.

I have been living in Ottawa since 2006.

Ottawa is where I pay my taxes.

I am uncomfortable in my skin because a lot has been happening here in Ottawa lately that do not reflect my values. I am always feeling like a fish unaccepted by the water it calls home.

Take the recent case that has seen two Ottawa City Councillors get into trouble. It all has to do with what the two politicians are calling “election expense gaffes” and “clerical errors”. But the public prosecutor and the tax payers think that what happened may be more than expense gaffes and clerical errors.

Here are the broad outlines of the story. In retiring his expense account for the 2010 election, one of the two Councillors reported that he had no election deficit whereas he was $5, 121 in the red. In other words, he had overspent on election by about six thousand dollars and was trying to cover it up (or failed to report that deficit due to “clerical errors” as he claims). The other Councillor in trouble has a slightly different story. Someone on his campaign team failed to report a $100 nomination fee refund as income and his campaign team as whole misreported a $1,754 bookkeeping fee.

The newspapers are reporting that the electoral officer of Elections Canada – the body in charge of elections in this country – must decide whether to accept the explanations of these Councillors that they made an honest mistake or whether to prosecute them for fraud and corruption. Because we are dealing with tax payer dollars and tax payers tend not to joke with how public officers spend their money in this country, the Councillors will in all likelihood be prosecuted.

And this is why I have nearly reached the conclusion that Canada is not the place for me. This is why I am seriously considering renouncing my citizenship. My values are at odds with the values of this country. I feel very embarrassed that the capital city of a major Western country is disturbing the peace of the rest of the world for corruption figures of less than ten thousand dollars. One of the Councillors even has somebody on his team being investigated for one hundred dollars!

These are not my values. When I say I care about my tax dollars, I mean that only “clerical errors” or “election expense gaffes” of half a billion dollars and above should cause concern and be investigated. If Canada is not prepared to embrace my values and improve on her standards of what constitutes corruption that should reasonably elicit outrage, I don’t see what I am doing here. It is a violation of my right to sleep and peace to be disturbed whenever a politician cannot account for one hundred dollars.

After nearly two decades in this country, another thing I still don’t understand is why politicians must retire campaign expense funds after an election. Retirement of campaign funds means that a thorough independent audit of campaign expenditure must be undertaken. How much did a campaign raise? How was it raised? How was it spent? Were campaign finance laws adhered to? What is the account balance of the campaign? People here treat campaign expense audits as a right. They even act like they have the right to know. That, also, is contrary to my values. I don’t think I can ever get used to it. It is better to renounce my citizenship than being made to feel that anybody owes me any explanations as to how they raised and spent their campaign funds.

I also do not like the fact that everybody is treating the investigation of the two Ottawa Councillors as a straightforward case of institutions and process. Nobody has risen up to defend them in public. Nobody has carried posters to support them. Nobody has threatened Elections Canada with doomsday scenarios should the two Councillors be prosecuted for corruption. What if they are being witch hunted because they do not belong to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s political party? Would they have been investigated at all if they had donated the disputed funds to Prime Minister Trudeau’s campaign? Are the two Councillors Christians? Are they Muslims? What is their ethnicity? Are they the only ones who have had “clerical errors” and “election expense gaffes” in the political history of Canada? Why single them out for persecution? Why now? Why not extend the investigation of financial wrongdoing to the formation of the Federal Dominion of Canada on July 1, 1867? Is that not the only way to ensure impartiality?

These are the kinds of questions that inform my world and my values. By not asking these kinds of questions, Canadians are being hostile to me. They are telling me that my values don’t count. They are rejecting who I am. I need to move to a country where I’d feel at home. Can you suggest a country where my values would not make me a minority?


SOURCE:PIUS ADESANMI

aylagos:
This is to some of our Igbo brothers that Yoruba know politics and know when to remove a particular government or person not the way of forcing and abusing Lagosians to vote against APC, I want to tell you guys today that it is not your fight and not your region because we know how to take it back anytime we want. Without you votes in Oyo and Kwara State Yoruba get it done and with your votes every four years you can’t change Lagos government because we re in control and we are comfortable with APC in Lagos at least for now.

You can’t tell us when to change Lagos government we will do that when we are ready but before then do your biz and pay your tax.