Alleged misconduct: EFCC reports three judges to NJC
- The EFCC has asked the NJC to take disciplinary action against three judges
- The three judges were asked to be disciplined over for alleged misconduct
- The EFCC had to report the judges to the NJC following a court ruling stating that the anti-graft agency does not have powers to investigate or prosecute a serving judicial officer
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has petitioned the National Judicial Council (NJC) over the alleged misconduct of three judges.
The judges are: Justice Rita Ofili-Ajumogobia, Justice Hyeladzira Nganjiwa and Justice Agbadu Fishim.
Punch reports that it was gathered that in a letter dated January 5, 2018, the EFCC asked the NJC to take disciplinary action against the three judges who are all facing trial in several courts.
EFCC resorted to reporting the judges to NJC as a result of a judgment by the Court of Appeal last December stating that the EFCC does not have powers to investigate or prosecute serving judicial officers, except where such officers have been dismissed by the NJC.
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The appeal court, in the same ruling, also struck out 14 fraud charges to the tune of $260,000 the EFCC slammed on Justice Nganjiwa of the Bayelsa Division of the Federal High Court.
Legit.ng learnt that though the anti-graft agency had challenged Justice Nganjiwa’s suit at the Supreme Court, it decided to also write to the NJC so that fraud cases against other judges would not be scuttled.
Justice Ofili-Ajumogobia is also facing 26 charges before a Lagos state high court bordering on unlawful enrichment, corruption, forgery and giving false information to an official of the EFCC.
The anti-graft agency also accused Justice Fishim of receiving an aggregate of N3.5m from seven Senior Advocates of Nigeria (SAN), one other Lagos-based lawyer and one law firm between 2013 and 2015.
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Legit.ng previously reported that the EFCC on Monday, January 22, called its sixth witness in the ongoing trial of former Abia governor, Orji Uzor Kalu, at a Federal High Court in Lagos.
The EFCC had on October 31, 2016, preferred 34 count charges bordering on N3.2 billion alleged fraud against Kalu and his former commissioner for finance, Ude Udeogo. Also charged is a company, Slok Nig. Ltd. T
The accused had pleaded not guilty to the charges and were granted bail.
When trial resumed on Monday, January 22, the prosecutor, Rotimi Jacobs (SAN), called the witness, Braimoh Yakubu, an internal control officer with Guaranty Trust Bank.
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Source: Legit.ng
