Return Justice Sylvester Ngwuta's "Loot" Back To Kogi Government - Group Begs DSS

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Return Justice Sylvester Ngwuta's "Loot" Back To Kogi Government - Group Begs DSS

A socio-political organisation, Kogi Renaissance Group (KRG), has appealed to the DSS to return all the discovered funds in the home of a supreme court judge, Justice Sylvester Ngwuta both in Naira and hard currencies to the coffers of Kogi state government as the funds are proceeds from controversial judgement-for-c ash delivered on September 20 in respect of Kogi governorship appeals.

The image maker of KRG, Abdul Nuhu, called on theNational Judicial commission to immediately commence investigation into the drama surrounding the contradictory victory and judgement delivered by the three levels of the courts and its judges which affirmed
Bello as duly elected governor of Kogi state.

According to Nuhu, even though the issue cannot be reversed based on the sensibilities of law, the affected Judges need to be reprimanded for subjecting the constitutional practices and the will of the people at the altar of self enrichment and aggrandizement.

The group expressed deep and unreserved
disappointment in rot involving the current top echelon of the judiciary including the office of the Chief Justice of Nigeria urging the government to reconstitute the NJC and purge the judiciary of the entire bad eggs that has given it a battered image.

The group suggested the reconstitution of the body to ensure it delivers quality decisions and sanctions on erring judges particularly on the issue of Kogi election that was compromised on the altar of avarice and exchange of cash made available by the state government running into billions of Naira of tax payers money.

It condemned the activities of majority of the Nigeria’s judicial officers who engage in shady deals in connivance with politicians who are desperate to cling to power at all cost particularly the Kogi election appeal scenario.

Nuhu insisted on the review of the supreme court
judgement and the compulsory retirement of the CJN and the entire supreme court justices for throwing to the dustbin the legal provision guiding the election into the office of the governor in the case of Kogi and many
others. He said the supreme court judgement have thrown the entire Kogi indigenes into a very precarious situation.

“The supreme court verdict on Kogi has foisted on us maladministration, rash decisions, wanton pilfering of meagre state funds as well as subjecting innocent citizens into untold hardship for the next three years.
This is tantamount to murder”, he said.

The group urged the international communities, civil society groups and other pressure groups to rally round Kogi state to ensure the funds recovered from the home of Justice Ngwunta were returned to Kogi state government coffers and the need to press home the probe of individual accounts of Judges in Nigeria.