Agents of the Department of State Security DSS have arrested two more
judges over allegations of corruption. According to The Nation, Justices
Bashir Sukola and Ladan Manir of the Kaduna State High Court, were
arrested in Kaduna and taken to the DSS Headquarters in Abuja at about
8.30pm yesterday October 12th.
A source in the DSS says that accounts of some of the judges currently under investigation have been frozen.
“Some accounts have been frozen through orders of the court. This
affects some of the judges. Not all of them. We found some huge
lodgements that are questionable in some accounts and in addition to
that we also observed the inflow of their salaries over a long period
without them making any withdrawal at all. What that means is that they
don’t live on their salaries at all. Those accounts have been frozen but
as I said not all of the judges are affected.”
The source stated that the judges have not been charged to court because
the National Judicial Council NJC is yet to make a pronouncement on the
matter
“We are waiting for the action of the NJC. We expect the NJC to suspend
them, otherwise it’s like taking a sitting judge to court. In the
Service, when anybody is being investigated for any serious crime, the
first thing we do is to place such a person on suspension. After the
investigation, such a person would face trial and get dismissed from
service on conviction and later face prosecution in the law court.”
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