The Islamic human rights organization has said via a statement signed by its director, Professor Ishaq Akintola, that “Judicial corruption fuels impunity. It is the worst type of corruption because that is where we go when the system is corrupt, he added. The statement reads:

"Any nation whose judicial system is led by corrupt judges is sitting on the precipice. Judicial corruption should not be tolerated in any sane society. It corrodes the rule of law. It is a cancerous tumour in any nation’s anatomy and any surgeon worth the salt will not hesitate to amputate a cancerous part of the body in order to save the rest.

“Judicial corruption enthrones corrupt politicians in political offices. It robs hardworking, honest and credible politicians of well-deserved victory at the polls. Judicial corruption is the deadliest enemy of democracy. It debilitates the rule of law, renders equal rights unattainable and puts asunder any dream of an egalitarian society. Judiciary is the last hope of the common man and a corrupt judge dashes the hope of the ordinary citizen.

“A corrupt judiciary poses the most potent threat to crime fighters like policemen, anti-corruption agencies, anti-graft activists, human rights activists, etc. The efforts of these patriotic elements who put their lives on the line for the sake of society will be in vain if the judiciary is corrupt. Corrupt judges frustrate the efforts of crime fighters. A corrupt judiciary emboldens criminals and corrupt people as they always know that they can bribe their way out in court.

“Nobody can wipe out corruption where the judiciary itself is enmeshed in dirty deals. It is like pouring water inside a basket in an attempt to fill it up. A hundred bucketfuls cannot achieve that. That is why MURIC is sounding this note of warning. Allow FG to handle the case of the CJN now before it infects the whole system.

“Something is wrong with us as a people if we want to defend a chief judge who made five different cash deposits of $10,000 each into Standard Chartered Bank Account 1062650 on 8th March 2011; made two separate cash deposits of $5000 each on 7th June 2011 followed by four cash deposits of $10,000 each on the same day. Again on 27th June 2011, Justice Onnoghen made another set of five separate cash deposits of $10,000 each and made four more cash deposits of $10,000 each on the following day, 28th June 2011. Are the rest of us who are poor Nigerians created to shine his shoes and lick his boots?

“MURIC is concerned because Islam abhors materialism. What is a judge doing with so much money when 80 million fellow citizens are wallowing in abject penury? Can we take any accumulated wealth to the grave? Do we know when our time will be up? Where are those before us who stole all the milk and honey in the land?

The Muslim Rights Concern is concerned because even if all public office holders are accumulating wealth unjustly, the chief judge of the land must be above board like Caesar’s wife. The Qur’an says all the wealth in this world cannot make a man live forever (104:1-9; 102:1-. Umar bin Khattab insisted that governors appointed by him must declare their assets immediately they are appointed and immediately after leaving office.

All these are allegations made in the petition written against him by a lawyer human rights activist and instead of the judge to deny them he claims to have forgotten to declare them in his asset declaration. If ignorance of the law is no excuse, what do we call this claim of forgetfulness made by the numero uno lawman of the federation? Justice Onnoghen should resign immediately if there is any decency left in him.

This is definitely not the ideal symbol of justice a nation can be proud of. We are making a mockery of the bench if high-ranking lawyers bend over backwards to defend the indefensible in this case. We seem to be unable to face the truth in this society. Other countries are making progress by punishing corrupt judges. Who did this to Nigeria?

“In China, Huang Songyou, a former Chinese supreme court judge was jailed for life after being convicted of embezzlement and receiving nearly £500,000 in bribes. Another judge, Wang Suyi was sentenced to fifteen years in prison for bribery. Indonesia's corruption court sentenced one of the country's top judges to eight years in prison for taking bribes in January 2017.

“In Pakistan, a five-member panel of judges ruled that Justice Patrialis Akbar was guilty of receiving thousands of dollars from a meat importer to influence the outcome of a judicial review of the law on animal husbandry. Mark Ciavarella, a corrupt judge in the United States was sent to 28 years in June 2018 for selling kids to private prisons while Munir Patel, an ordinary British court clerk was sentenced to four years in prison in 2011 for receiving £100,000 bribe because Britain will not stomach corruption in its criminal justice system.

“The choice is ours, whether to deal decisively with corrupt judges in order to instill discipline in the judiciary or to allow tribal jingoism, acrobatic religiousity and articulated political sentiment to override our objectivity.

For the avoidance of doubts, we assert clearly, categorically and unequivocally that MURIC will continue to support this regime not because the president is a Muslim (he is not the only Muslim candidate anyway) or because of his political leaning but because the president has unassailable integrity and because this is the only regime that has made fighting corruption its cardinal focus.

“We are also not unaware of the personal risks involved, they are simply part of the hazards of human rights activism. We are prepared to do even more in the interest of our dear country and in defense of Allah-given fundamental human rights of Nigerian Muslims and the rest of its citizens.

On a last note, we reiterate that Justice Onnoghen is a clog in the wheel of justice. Wailers should allow the law to take its due course. It is most dangerous for Nigeria to approach a general election with a jaundiced judicial system. The Nigerian people have lost confidence in him. He should resign without delay”.

http://www.insiderpostonline.com/news/onnoghen-judicial-corruption-fuels-impunity-muric-reacts-to-cjn-probe/

Quote of the day.

Any nation whose judicial system is led by corrupt judges is sitting on the precipice. Judicial corruption should not be tolerated in any sane society. It corrodes the rule of law. It is a cancerous tumour in any nation’s anatomy and any surgeon worth the salt will not hesitate to amputate a cancerous part of the body in order to save the rest.

Its official. Muric is a terrorist arm of Buhari along side the Fulani herdsmen.

Muric release the statements while the herdsmen butchers.

Daily Nigeria released 5 videos of Ganduje taking bribes where were you prof Akintola?

Try and act like a professor for once

One man squad! He has come with his sanctimonious nonsense! I haven't seen this kind of speech on the numerous members of the executive that have been clearly caught with their hands in the cookie jar and exposed! Hypocrisy is worse than any corruption itself because it becomes selective and further perpetuates same corrupt practices the hypocrite pretends to address.

These terrorists called MURIC have come again, something really needs to be done about them fast before they transform fully into another taliban

Oga MuMuric why we no see you for court na?

in falz's voice MURIC TALK FINISH,WE NO SEE AM FOR COURT.

Broda MURIC no go gree stop ranting

The zombie up there will always be zombiec,mumuic and partial in his critics.we all know that our government is corrupt but the ewu awusa,calls the judiciary corrupt,calls the legislators corrupt and the executives saints all because of his 30k salary.continue licking that wrinkled old ass,las las na all of us dey suffer am.

Broda Muric dey fear Court

When or where ever curruption is mentioned PDP starts barking why?

to all Yorubas ask yourself this question, are you an omoluabi or an aboki in disguise.

MURIC IS ALSO ON THE BMC 30k PAYROLL

How did mumuric get details of the judge's transactions?
A high court judge receives about £20,000 yearly as medical allowance minus other allowances like leave,wardrobe,domestic etc, now how much will a supreme court judge's own?
Don't come and preach it is exorbitant here,after all Aisha buhari has hundreds of millions for cooking utensils and judges all over the world are paid well so as not to let them be under temptation to collect bribe.

This Terrorist on the loose again !!!

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The REAL Enemies of Nigeria are the Ones pouring in accusations...


MURIC you are a Failed entity! You have failed!

You have no Moral Justification under the Earth to accuse the CJN..

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Did the CJN admit to being guilty to not declaring his assets? do you know when submitting your asset declaration you also swear an ooah? Do you know lying under oath is perjury? What moral justification do you have to defend such behaviour? Shouldn't you be demanding he resigns because he didn't obey the law.


Poverty is not an excuse to defend corruption

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Did the CJN admit to being guilty to not declaring his assets? do you know when submitting your asset declaration you also swear an ooah? Do you know lying under oath is perjury? What moral justification do you have to defend such behaviour? Shouldn't you be demanding he resigns because he didn't obey the law.


Poverty is not an excuse to defend corruption

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[/s] Under the Law, the NJC is the body to tell us if he has a case or not!

The Presidency has no business there..

Where the Presidency has its work to do it failed woefully...

Until the NJC declares the CJN guilty you have no right to do so or engage in Media trial

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Under the Law, the NJC is the body to tell us if he has a case or not!

The Presidency has no business there..

Where the Presidency has its work to do it failed woefully...

Until the NJC declares the CJN guilty you have no right to do so or engage in Media trial

Did the CJN confess to violating law?

Am not surprised by Muric reaction because i have been expecting this from them since Yesterday.

I have a question for muric and their supporters

Why is that Muric didn't release any statement/reaction during Ganduje bribery scandal? Is it because Ganduje is a Muslim and CJN happens to be a Christian?

Muric has been so bias in their response to issues in Nigeria. One thing i observe about the body is that they make a lot of noise if corruption issue is tagged Christians but keep mum if happens to be a fellow muslim

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Did the CJN confess to violating law?

NO, he was accused! Accusations is not being guilty until proven...

We are not prepared as a people to make our country great...just look at comments,and every day we complain that we supposed to have gone past the Dubias of this world...CJN forgot to declare 700 dolls not seven hundred naira o...and some group of people are supporting this nonsense.

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We are not prepared as a people to make our country great...just look at comments,and every day we complain that we supposed to have gone past the Dubias of this world...CJN forgot to declare 700 dolls not seven hundred naira o...and some group of people are supporting this nonsense.

yes I support him because Aisha buhari has billions of naira in her account and nobody talks about it. Babachir lawal was involved in a scandal and not even the efcc is after him.
When they are ready to fight corruption, we would give them our voice.as for now what they are doing is political witch hunting and ethnic cleansing in the Nigerian system

Don't worry my brother, am equally surprised that some youths are supporting corruption while at the same complain of we are not were we suppose to be among great nations. If we keep supporting corrupt politicians, Nigeria will be worse than Somalia am sure we never pray for.

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Did the CJN admit to being guilty to not declaring his assets? do you know when submitting your asset declaration you also swear an ooah? Do you know lying under oath is perjury? What moral justification do you have to defend such behaviour? Shouldn't you be demanding he resigns because he didn't obey the law.


Poverty is not an excuse to defend corruption

Can you show us where the CJN admitted he was guilty?

Ok

I stand with MURIC on this

Brother Muri shout finish we no see am for court