NJC shies away from the senator’s confession of influencing his wife’s decisions as a judge of the Court of Appeal, while it clears 32 other judges of wrongdoing during its last meeting.
has dismissed complaints of wrongdoing against 32 judges of various courts, while it remains silent on the recent scandalous confession of a senator confirming a widely-held perception of entrenched corruption in the Nigerian judiciary.
At the meeting presided over by the Chief Justice of Nigeria and chairperson of the NJC, Olukayode Ariwoola, the council cleared 32 judges, including a retired Justice of the Supreme Court, Mary Odili, of wrongdoings levelled against them by various petitioners. But the council shied away from the shocking confessions of the former senator.
PREMIUM TIMES, on Friday, phoned the NJC spokesperson, Soji Oye, over the glaring omission from the statement he signed but said he was not authorised to speak on the issue. It also touched on a new policy agreed on at the meeting barring High Court judges from switching from High Court bench to the Court of Appeal.The NJC, in the statement, said its investigative committees dismissed some of the petitions filed against some judges.
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