The National Judicial Council, NJC, has made up a panel to investigate fifteen High Court judges over alleged connection in acts of judicial corruption.
The legal body in a statement yesterday said its conclusion
to set up the panel to probe the judges was informed by reports of 2
Preliminary Complaints Assessment Committees that looked into forty-six
petitions written against judicial officers in the federal & state
judiciaries.
Though the council protected identities of the judges under
probe, it said it had at the end of its meeting dismissed thirty-one petitions
against different judicial officers.
Council treated the 2 petitions as withdrawn, since it didn’t
find anything in them amply serious for more consideration as stipulated in
Regulation 9 of the Judicial Discipline Regulations."
Chief Judge had already retired from service & no longer
in the employment of National Judicial Council.
Council agreed to report Adesina
Ogunlana , Esq.
to the Legal Practitioners Disciplinary Committee, LPDC, for misdemeanors, for
the use of foul-mouthed language in a petition written to National Judicial
Council against Hon. Justice O.
O. Atilade ,
the immediate past Chief Judge of Lagos State."
Justice Musa Ibrahim Anka from office for
purportedly receiving a bribe of N200,000 from one Zubairu Abdumalik
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