The NJC announced this on Friday, among other disciplinary actions it took against other judges, including warnings, work-without-pay and watch listing over various acts of misconduct.
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The statement by NJC’s Deputy Director , Kemi Babalola-Ogedengbe, said the council took the decisions during its two-day meeting held on Wednesday and Thursday. NJC said Friday that its investigative panel found that 27 October 1956, appeared to be Mr Chieka’s consistent date of birth, “but in 2006, the Chief Judge swore to an affidavit changing the date of birth to 27 October 1958.”For Mr Mahdi, the statement said NJC’s findings found his actual date of birth to be 1952, and by falsifying his age, already extended his retirement age by 12 years.
Age falsification is a recurrence among Nigerian judges, which many believe is not adequately punished by the NJC. The Council equally considered the Report of its Preliminary Complaints Assessment Committee, which considered a total number of 30 petitions, empanelled 6 Committees for further investigation. While 22 were dismissed for lacking in merit, two were sub judice.
That the judgment was delivered on 15 July 2020, at the High Court of the FCT, while the certificate of judgment was registered at Bori Division of the High Court of Rivers State on 16 July 2020.
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