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| Chief Justice of Nigeria |
The Chief
Justice of Nigeria, CJN, Justice Mahmud Mohammed, said, last night, that
he was not at war with President Muhammadu Buhari or any agency of government
over the purported non-compliance with court orders freeing suspects of the
arms scandal who were granted bail by judges.
A top
source in the judiciary last night said that contrary to claims in certain
quarters that the CJN was furious with Buhari for allowing EFCC to ignore court
orders freeing the Dasukigate suspects, Mohammed had nothing to do with the
issue.
The top
official noted that though there were concerns among judges that some of their
orders had not been carried out to the letter by some government agencies,
there was also fury in the judiciary that many judges had aided and abetted top
government officials to loot the treasury with impunity through frivolous
orders and injunctions which were against the interest of the country and its
people.
The
senior official close to the CJN said: “I don’t think that the CJN has issued
any statement on any court order relating to the investigation of the arms
cash, individuals or groups since he believes that the courts are well able to
discharge their duties as enshrined in the laws of Nigeria.
“Again,
the thinking in the judiciary seems to be that some judges misused their
offices to encourage some corrupt key government functionaries to slip away to
foreign land with huge public funds under the guise of seeking avant-garde
medicare.
“If the
question may be asked, was it the CJN that ordered those judges to work against
the interest of Nigeria by granting frivolous orders that enabled corrupt
Nigerian public officers to make away with public funds?
“Let it
be known that the CJN does not and will never encourage any form of misdeed
having taken the oath of office to remain incorruptible, just and firm in the
discharge of his duties to Nigeria and its people.
“I can
tell you that the CJN is aware of the frivolous orders being issued by some
judges and he cannot, therefore, sympathise with people who threw their
integrity to the winds when they should have done the right thing at the right
time.”
Yesterday,
the media was awash with claims that the CJN had fallen out with Buhari over
his refusal to obey court orders granting bail to some suspects implicated in
the sharing of $2.1 billion meant for arms procurement.
In
particular, the commentators said that the CJN was upset that the President had
not released the former NSA, Col. Sambo Dasuki (retd), and the leader of the
Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu, from detention after being
granted bail by courts.
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