sekundosekundo:


Everybody will not be like Buhari who doesn't know how to invest. CBN and APC paid #100million naira to kidnappers, if a business man withdraw or carry such money, won't they arrest him.

I beg e! Which nonsense investment gives a salary earning man N1bln in his account?

COMPAQ:


I beg e! Which nonsense investment gives a salary earning man N1bln in his account?

Talking about salary earners, how much is the salary of a Nigerian Senator.

akpanbaba:
Am 100% in support of PMB now.I have never been his fan but what is happeing now in our judicial system is highly commendable.Indeed God has visited Nigeria and am happy.Those who say PMB is selective can continue to cry because they dont know how many lives these judges have destroyed especially during election in 2015.May God punish them and. their supporters who rejoice over evil My prayer is that God will direct this man PMB

Sycophant. You're his basic supporter. GEJ lost and has since moved on but those that won has refused to move on. APC conducted the worst election in Edo you praised them, they lost case means currupt justice? What manner of saints are they?

divinehand2003:


And the dollars in their numerous accounts, both home and abroad are beyond all they could ever get in their life time without any other known source of income.
Abi judges too dey do money rituals?
I beg they should go and answer for themselves joor. Corruption must be thrown out of Nigeria by force.

+100,000Likes.

These ignorant kids think anyone is here to please them.

#Learners.

COMPAQ:


I beg e! Which nonsense investment gives a salary earning man N1bln in his account?

Try property investment and thank me later.

Lightening:


Ijaws have really moved on. They are only bombing the pipeline in solidarity with PMB's government. #2face

Don't mind him. He thinks everyone listen to his political nonsense

TonyeBarcanista:

You are not Ijaw but you people keep crying more than the bereaved. Nnamdi Kanu need your sympathy more.

You should be bothered with your Ipob agitation and stop killing yourself over Ijaw affairs.


ifianfi

alas! This shameless c.lown is back with his ass-licking tactics.
You behave like a woman, seriously. Both in talk and attitude,
i saw u masturbating over tinubu case, Crying more than the bereaved.
You need maturity in ur life.

sekundosekundo:


My dear stop deceiving yourself. These are Judges that their judgments did not favour Buhari.

source for your allegation pls

Once a bloody dictator always a bloody dictator. worst government ever

Our judges have ruin dz Country. Either they have been threatened or they were heavily bribed. Either way!!

They have almost compromised justice

Nigeria is in a mess. Arresting judges? This total war against the core institutions of this country will spell the end of democracy.

doctokwus:

Guy, pmb has not appointed the next CJN so let's give him the benefit of doubt.
At least 50% of SC justices in Nigeria are corrupt.
He cud still appoint a southerner,not necessarily the onoghen who the govt may av massive evidence of corruption against.
This for me is a long overdue cleansing of the judiciary.

In Nigeria the term suffering and smiling is often used, I would like to throw in a new name into the mix... ''condoning ill and suffering'' Nigerians condone theft/corruption/bribery/malpractice/thuggery if the thief is from their clan, so as Nigerians have some many clans every thief/corrupt official has a ''condone n suffer' clan to protect them. How can Nigeria ever stamp out corruption if nobody wants a member of their clan held to account. The fact is just like in the USA, http://www.judiciaryreport.com/corrupt_judges.htm THERE ARE CORRUPT JUDGES IN Nigeria, how do we deal with the Nigeria issue is the problem, we need go after them with no mercy.

I think most nairalanders have not been a victim of a corrupt judge hence the crying wolf, hope you never experience your family heirlooms an family land awarded to somebody else or company that has bribed a judge.

This scourge of corruption of in the Nigeria judiciary needs to be tackled if only it then makes others below them afraid that they will be next (local government chairman, VC, Policemen etc) .

MrDavidson:
This is great, but I have my reservations about the timing for these arrests. Why should the supposed incoming CJN be included? The Judiciary has been very corrupt, but this govt too has been too lenient on them. Why should judges not be tried speedily when they're caught red-handed in bribe, but simply suspended or even transfered to another location? To go and continue his heist, isn't it? During the election petitions, many judges were busted by the EFCC of having collected bribes to twist justice, but they were only removed and given a slap on their wrist. Isn't that absurd? Why are they treating them as if they were constitutionally immune from prosecution? So many questions.

Onnoghen isnt among those been investigated, it has nthing to do wit d incoming cjn.

When ever u see ur neighbour being manhandled and u rejoice just kool down because it is just a matter of little time the bully will reach ur side when abacha was arresting the yorubas the hausas were rejoicing until he arrested yaradua then everybody knew that he was on an evil mission, last year buhari started rubbishing the legislature the judiciary didn't do anything now he has started abducting judges secretly nigerians irrespective of tribe,religion or sex shud condemn this evil move to destroy our democracy if u support this hit like

TonyeBarcanista:

How can you arrest Judges like common criminals without first inviting them? I will never support corruption but swooping on Judges without first inviting them is suspicious and wrong.

they were invited, d dss clarified this.

Hmmm.The changed agenda seems to be pushing, Buhari is becoming unstoppable, but God is able.

YouthsPC0:
Never in the history of Nigeria there been a deliberate attempt to emasculate and destroy state institutions like we are seeing under General Buhari, it appears there is a systematic plot to silence everyone except Buharis cows.

These people are playing a script, the arrest of the Next CJN on trumpt up charges of corruption was well timed to give Buhari the perfect excuse not to present his name for confirmation as CJN as such keeping him incommunicado will allow the current Chief Justice of Nigeria, Hon. Justice Mahmud Mohammed due for retirement by November 10, to handover to The next in rank to Onnoghen Hon. Justice Ibrahim Tanko Muhammad from Bauchi State. a Northern Muslim as acting CJN .

Justices Onnoghen who is the second in rank and has been nominated by the Federal Judical Service commission (FJSC) as successor to the outgoing Chief Justice of Nigeria just last week

Most likely the hawks were taken unawares by the FJSC nomination and decided to strike before the national judical council (NJC) makes the final Nomination


Since after Justice Irikefe in 1985, the North has produced virtually all the CJNs till date: Justice Mohammed Bello (1987-1995), Justice Muhammadu Lawal Uwais (1995-2006), Justice Salisu Modibo Alfa Belgore (2006-2007), Justice Idris Legbo Kutigi (2007-2009), Justice Aloysius Iyorgyer Katsina-Alu (2009-2011), Justice Aloma Mariam Mukhtar (2012-2014) and the presiding deity, Justice Mahmud Mohammed (2014 till date).


No matter what a judge is perceived to have done against the APC whether true or imaginary it does not warrant the kind of criminal treatment been meted out to them, the Gestapo manner in which the homes of Judges were raided and members of their families beaten up points to the fact that Nigeria has indeed gone to the dogs a nation where the only laws that exists are the laws that suits the hawks.

The invasion of the homes of the high & Supreme court Judges at an unholy hour is part of a wider plot to turn the judiciary into a bingo in the hands of Buhari and his gang, initially they plotted to use the courts to sweep the leadership of the the National Assembly into Kuje prison, when it failed the turned on the courts.

Everyone knows the incompetent and clueless Buhari will be the simplest President to be impeached if the National Assembly decides to thus his attempt to plant a stooge as CJN and destroy an institution.

Whether Buhari will be allowed to destroy what is left of Nigeria will be known in the next few days

Have you now found out that Justice Onnogen wasn't among those arreste

If I were Judges no APC member will win any case again ....

divinehand2003:


And the dollars in their numerous accounts, both home and abroad are beyond all they could ever get in their life time without any other known source of income.
Abi judges too dey do money rituals?
I beg they should go and answer for themselves joor. Corruption must be thrown out of Nigeria by force.

Your post is ridiculously amazing, a lawyer does not move directly from law school to become a judge, they practice for years and charge fees, if am a lawyer i can charge you just any amount as my fee, and where i decide to keep my monies is not anybodies business. Some serving military officers were confirmed to have houses in Dubai which value is worth more than what they can ever earn in their career life. I pity this zoo.

We must draw a line between fighting corrupt judges and fighting the judiciary. We should know whether the issue is about procedure or the substance of the allegations against the judges.
We have to take a stand on this issue for the sake of posterity.

Inibehe Effiong

Nine Philadelphia judges arrested on charges of corruption

Jim Avila and Serena Marshall
ABC News
Thu, 31 Jan 2013 08:57 UTC
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© RON TARVER / Staff Photographer
William J. Brennan (left), the attorney representing former Traffic Court Judge Willie Singletary (center), takes questions from reporters before entering federal court.
The charges are essentially grassroots corruption -- that an entrenched system in Philadelphia fixed the tickets of connected drivers while severely punishing drivers with no clout.

Nine traffic court judges, virtually everyone who wore the robe in the city's traffic court between July 2008 and September 2011, were arrested today and forced to stand on the other side of the bench and be accused by federal prosecutors of cheating the average citizen out of a fair shake.

Among them, the judges face charges of conspiracy to commit wire and mail fraud, wire fraud, mail fraud, perjury, making false statements to the FBI, and aiding and abetting. They could be punished by 60 to 490 years behind bars and face millions of dollars in fines.

Defendant William Hird, who could face 315 years in prison and a $4.5 million fine on nearly 20 criminal counts, said only "no comment" today when leaving his arraignment. But his lawyer said the former judge was "being indicted for essentially doing his job."

FBI Acting Special Agent-in-Charge John Brosnan had a different perspective, saying at a news conference that "justice in any courtroom requires fairness."

One of the nine judges, Willie Singletary, in what prosecutors characterized as a brazen sale of justice, was captured on a video meeting with a motorcycle club called the Philadelphia First State Road Rattlers, saying: "There's going to be a basket going around because I'm running for Traffic Court judge, right, and I need some money. I got some stuff that I got to do, but if you all can give me $20 you're going to need me in Traffic Court. Am I right about that? ... Now you all want me to get there, you're all going to need my hook-up, right?"

Singletary faces charges that could add up to 490 years in prison and $6.5 million in fines on 27 counts, prosecutors said.

Another judge, Michael J. Sullivan, owner of a local Philadelphia tavern, allegedly instructed his friends and political cronies to put their tickets in a box behind the bar for the fix. He faces a potential penalty of 440 years in prison and a $5.5 million fine on 23 counts.

Judge Gary Glazer is in charge of reforming the court, brought in as a result of the on-going FBI investigation.

"It's a great sense of sadness that an institution can be corrupted," Glazer said. "It's a great sense of embarrassment that judges can operate in a way that's essentially lawless."

Just how far do authorities say the fix was in? If you had a connection through family, a state supreme court report found that you had an 85 percent chance of getting your ticket dismissed or being found not guilty, while the average person in that same courtroom had a mere 26 percent chance of being found not guilty.

Glazer said judges would be alerted in advance when "particular people were interested in particular results for particular parties appearing in court," in order to ensure those cases were handled with special treatment.

"It is such a widespread practice that, unfortunately, the court has become, to paraphrase Jon Stewart, the whoopee-cushion of the judiciary. It's become a real problem," Glazer said.

That same report accused Democratic U.S. Rep. Robert Brady, who was not charged today with any legal wrongdoing, of being a frequent requester of courtroom favors.

"You call me to try and get you help because you know us, because you're involved in politics or you're a Democratic committee person. We give you an attorney and the attorney goes down," Brady told ABC News. "Sometimes you're guilty and sometimes you're not."

When ABC News pressed the congressman, asking if he had ever called in a favor, Brady vehemently denied it, saying "never at all."

Brady added that he "doesn't approve" of the Philadelphia judges' alleged behavior.

"My philosophy is that if somebody has a problem with traffic court, we do not call the judge, we do not talk to a judge. Never do that for any judge, for anybody. I would not do that," he said. "All I do is get an attorney, supply an attorney for them, which happens once a month, once every two months."

Besides Hird, Singletary and Sullivan, the six judges charged today are Michael Lowry, Robert Mulgrew, Thomasine Tynes, Mark A. Bruno, Henry "Eddy" Alfano and Robert Moy.

The Philadelphia case is just the latest in a series of big-city courtroom corruption cases. In New York, cops deny accusations that they fixed tickets. In Detroit, an officer pleaded no contest to accusations he ticketed a driver and later promised to get the tickets overturned "for a price." He received two months in jail and two years probation. In San Diego, a 27-year veteran pleaded no contest to destroying seatbelt violations given to district attorneys and subsequently resigned.

It is a problem so pervasive, the FBI says public corruption is now its No. 1 criminal focus.

divinehand2003:


And the dollars in their numerous accounts, both home and abroad are beyond all they could ever get in their life time without any other known source of income.
Abi judges too dey do money rituals?
I beg they should go and answer for themselves joor. Corruption must be thrown out of Nigeria by force.

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