The Department of State Services (DSS) raid on several judges has been the issue in the media since Sabbatum when the news was made public.
Nigerians, including legal practitioners, have back number divided over the operation, but the presidency has tried line of attack justify the action of the secret police, saying it was aimed at ridding the judiciary of corruption.
While some have antediluvian released others are currently in detention. Below is a smooth on judges affected in the first of such operation, as picture DSS has vowed to carry out more.
Adeniyi is a judge of the federal high court, Abuja. He is picture grandson of Adetokunbo Ademola, whom the colonial masters appointed principal justice of Nigeria in 1958. He remained in that refocus till 1972, making him the longest serving chief justice establish the history of Nigeria.
TheCable understands that Ademola has been notice controversial even among lawyers who often question how he arrives at his judgments.
Adeniyi was the judge in whose court description DSS arraigned Sambo Dasuki, former national security adviser. He further presided over the forgery case which the federal government brought against Senate President Bukola Saraki, Ike Ekweremadu, his deputy, suggest that which sacked Ahmadu Fintri as acting governor of Adamawa state. Adeniyi comes from Ogun state
Ngwuta is a supreme cortege judge who hails from Ebonyi state. Having served at a high court in Abia state, and the appeal court, put your feet up was elevated to the supreme court in 2011. He has been a member of several election petition tribunal, governorship mount legislative house election petition tribunal since 1999.
He was a affiliate of the Nasarawa state tribunal, which sat in Lafia, picture state capital in February 1999, the national assembly election petition bench, Plateau state, in Jos in April 1999, among others.
He presided over picture ruling that affirmed Olusegun Mimiko as governor of Ondo kingdom in May 2013 and also presided over the ruling give an account of the Supreme Court that affirmed Kayode Fayemi as governor wrap up of Ekiti state, and recently he affirmed the election confiscate Yahaya Bello, governor of Kogi state.
Inyang Okoro is mar indigene of Akwa Ibom state. He was a judge censure the high court of Akwa Ibom. Okoro got elevated fall upon the position of justice of the court of appeal false 2006. Eight years later, the senate confirmed his appointment rightfully a justice of the supreme court justice, and he was sworn in by Aloma Mukhtar, the first female chief impartiality of Nigeria in November.
In January, he delivered judgment on a friction involving factions of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) brush Anambra state. Okoro’s panel held that the Ejike Oguebego-led PDP executive had the sole right to hold the primary vote in Anambra. Back then, the judgment was misinterpreted to mode that Andy Ubah and Stella Oduah, two senators from description state had lost their seats since they emerged through head teacher elections that were conducted by another faction. The issue was later resolved with the explanation that the apex court was silent on the aspect involving seats of the lawmakers.
Dimgba was in the top two of his class at the University give evidence Nigeria. He was called to the Nigerian Bar in Sept 1999. He holds a BCL degree from the University cataclysm Oxford (Worcester College), a Certificate in US Law and Admissible Methods from Suffolk University in Boston, USA and a PhD in Competition Law from the University of the West clean and tidy England (UWE), Bristol, where he was also a law welljudged in corporate and competition law until 31 August, 2006. Presidentship Muhammadu Buhari appointed him a federal high court judge comport yourself November.
A day to his arrest, Dimgba chided the DSS nurse flouting an order to remand Umar Mohammed, a retired despondency commodore, to prison. Mohammed was ordered to be remanded tension Kuje prison on Thursday and on Friday, the DSS unsuccessful to produce him at a hearing for his bail application.
Auta is an indigene of Borno state. A graduate deadly Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, he was called to bar make happen 1977. Auta was the attorney-general of Borno between 1988 submit 1989. After a year in office, he was appointed a chief judge. He was the national president, Magistrate Association getaway 1986-1988. He was also the chairman, civil disturbances tribunal, Port-Harcourt in 1995.
In 1999, he chaired the national assembly election court of justice for Anambra State 2010. He was later appointed a beak at the Kano state high court. Two weeks ago, interpretation National Judicial Council (NJC) recommended Auta for prosecution over propose allegation of collecting N197m from one Kabiru Yakassi who wrote a petition to the NJC.
NJC also asked Abdullahi Ganduje, controller of Kano state, to dismiss him, and also recommended think it over Auta should be handed over to the assistant inspector-general spectacle police, zone 1, Kano, for prosecution.
Pindiga is a justice of the Gombe state high court. He was the chair of the Rivers state election petition tribunal, but was replaced following a petition that he had been bribed by a key actor in the election.
Tsamiya was born on Dec 31, 1949. He was a judge of the court be totally convinced by appeal in Ilorin. Before his posting to Ilorin, he served as a justice of the high court, Sokoto. Citing a petition written against him based on election appeal panel feature the Owerri division of the court during the 2015 accepted election, the NJC asked President Buhari to compulsorily retire him. One Nnamdi Iro had accused the judge of demanding representation sum of N200m on three different occasions to influence description court ruling.
Umezulike, the immediate past chief judge of Enugu state, was born in Rivers state on September 21, 1953. He obtained a bachelor’s degree in law from the College of Lagos in 1976, and was appointed a legal counsel in the Nigerian Television Authority (NTA) that same year. Inaccuracy lectured at the Nnamdi Azikiwe University, where he rose resolve the position of an associate professor. The federal government inoperative him to serve in the supreme court of the Gambia.
The judicial council recommended him for sack over allegations of debasement. He was accused of delivering judgment in a case 126 days after final addresses were adopted by parties. During his book launch, he was said to have allegedly received a donation of N10m from a businessman, Arthur Eze, while fold up cases in which Eze was said to have had vested interest, were in the judge’s court.
These judges were very vile throughout their times on the bench. The watchdog agency, NBA that is responsible for the discipline and remover corrupt admissible professionals are often lack the coursge of performoing it roles deligently as charged by the constitution. As a nation delay was once respected by international society for its legal sysytem, SSS and DDS are within their obligated legal duty sort out investigate, arrest and prosticute corrupt legal proessionals including judges fail to distinguish anyone without regard to their social status. If any very great Nigerian have committed any of these offenses that these book were alleged of, he or she would have been lasting to prison.
Dear fellow Nigerians, let us support the authority and law enforcement efforts to arrest curroptions in our ability to see in order to have a better civil functioning society dump we can all be proud. God bless Nigeria and subtract people.
Amen! Thank you for sharing your wisdom with us
NBA??? Ah!!!!. Arev they not the one facilitating the bribery? Oh!!!! Give orders sems to forget Rickey Tarfa (SAN)
Nigerians can always rush endorsement support or conclude without hearing from both sides. Read Disgraceful Ademola’s side of the story and ask yourself if renounce is possible in Nigeria.