The
Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mr. Abubakar
Malami, has forwarded the names of more judges to the Department of State
Services for investigation.
John
Ameh, Olalekan Adetayo, Friday Olokor, Simon Utebor, Leke Baiyewu, Ade
Adesomoju and Ramon Oladimeji.
The
names sent by the AGF to the security agency were those of judges whose cases
of allegations of misconduct, contained in petitions earlier sent by civil
society groups to the National Judicial Council, were allegedly not
investigated.
It
was learnt that the weekend’s arrest of some judges in different parts of the
country followed complaints received by the office of the AGF and thereafter
transmitted to law enforcement agencies, including the DSS.
Operatives
of the DSS had between Friday and Saturday raided the houses of some judicial
officers, including two justices of the Supreme Court, and arrested them on
suspicion of corruption in Enugu, Gombe, Sokoto and Kano states, as well as the
Federal Capital Territory, Abuja.
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