The National Judicial
Council, NJC, on Thursday suspended seven senior judges arrested in October by
the Department of Security Service, DSS, for alleged corruption.
It is suspected that
the NJC took the decision to suspend the judges due to mounting pressure from
the public after the body initially refused to suspend them.
reports that the
suspension of the judges was arrived at after the NJC’s 7th meeting held
between Wednesday and Thursday.
A communique issued at
the end of the meeting, and signed by NJC’s Director of Information, Soji Oye,
said the decision was taken to avoid allowing persons under investigation to to
partake in presiding over judicial matters at the same time.
The affected judges
are:
Justice Sylvester
Ngwuta – Supreme court Judge; Justice Inyang Okoro – Supreme Court Judge;
Justice Mohammed Tsamiya –Presiding Justice of the Court of Appeal, Ilorin
Division; Justice Kabiru Auta – Kano State High Court; Justice Adeniyi Ademola
– Federal High Court, Abuja; Justice I. A. Umezulike – Former Chief Judge of
Enugu state and Muazu Pindiga – Federal High Court, Gombe Division.
Source: Pmnews
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