As Ariwoola takes the judiciary to the top of the grease pole, By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu

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Second, the Council put forward an implausible threshold for judicial accountability, confining it only to when a judge is actively caught in the act of bribery. If this were to be the standard of accountability applicable to judges, it would place them well below the average criminal, in terms of credibility.

In its report in 2019, the NJC committee made many damaging findings against Hyeladzira Nganjiwa. For instance, despite being a judge of the Federal High Court, he was also receiving payments “in respect of Criminal Cases conducted at the Federal High Court by EFCC and NDLEA.” It also found that having “worked as a counsel in the Chambers of Rickey Tarfa & Co and since appointed as a Judge, continued to receive various payments made into his account even after being confirmed a Judge.

It is a fitting coda to the tenure of outgoing Chief Justice of Nigeria, Olukayode Ariwoola, that the judiciary that he will leave behind hasboth the Police and Customs services to reach the top of the institutional corruption grease pole in Nigeria. That is not a mean feat.

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