The National Judicial Council (NJC) has suspended G. C. Aguma, chief judge of Rivers state, over judicail misconduct....
The National Judicial Council has suspended G. C. Aguma, judge of a state high court in Rivers, for alleged judicial misconduct.According to a statement by the council on Friday, both chief judges are barred from performing judicial functions for a period of one year without pay and would be placed on a watch-list for two years thereafter.
“The council finds that justice Aguma failed to raise any query as to why the garnishee proceedings were brought to his court in Bori for a money judgment that could effectively be enforced in Abuja. “On the part of Hon. Justice A. O. Nwabunike of Anambra state, the Council found him to have breached the provision of Rule 3.1 of the Revised Code of Conduct for Judicial Officers of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 2016.
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