NJC SACKS 2 JUDGES

The National Judicial Council  (NJC) has recommended the immediate retirement of  some judges after an emergency meeting of the body late last night.

Close sources to the meeting said two judges are in the blackbook.

They are Justice Thomas D. Naron and Justice Charles Archibong.

But another source said Justice Abubakar Talba who gave the scandalous judgement in the case of the multi-billionaire pension thief, Yakubu Yusuf, asking him to pay a fine of N750,000, is also on the list.

The NJC officials said a statement will be issued later today.

P.M.NEWS sources at the NJC  denied that Talba was among the judges recommended for retirement.

Justice Thomas Naron presided over the Osun state election petition tribunal where he shamelessly communicated with the  lawyer to then Osun state governor to thwart the  course of justice,.

Justice Charles Archibong handled the case of disgraced banker, Erastus Akingbola.

At the meeting presided over by the Chief Justice of Nigeria, CJN, Justice Mariam Mukhtar, at the Supreme Court complex in Abuja, the NJC called for the immediate compulsory retirement of the judges on ethical grounds.

The recommendations have been forwarded to President Goodluck Jonathan who has the power of final approval.

Justice Naron was investigated by the NJC for the scandalous ruling he led three other judges to give as the first election petition tribunal in Osun Stateafter the controversial 2007 elections.

The judges were believed to have been compromised by the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, government of the then governor, Olagunsoye Oyinlola.

Call logs published by TheNEWS Magazine later  showed that Justice Naron and Mr. Oyinlola’s lawyer, Kunle Kalejaiye, had secret discussions prior to the controversial ruling.

Oyinlola was later sacked by the Court of Appeal and replaced with the authentic winner of the election, Rauf Aregbesola.

The NJC was silent on the cases of two other rogue judges, Mr. Ibrahim Buba, the judge that granted a permanent injunction restraining the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) from arresting, questioning or interrogating former governor Peter Odili of Rivers State as well as Mr. Justice Marcel Awokulehin, the judge who cleared former governor James Ibori of all fraud charges in 2009.

PM.NEWS learnt that the NJC has also refered the case of Kunle Kalejaiye, SAN to the NBA.

Source: PMNews