The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Thursday slammed fresh corruption charges against Justice Hydiazira Nganjiwa of the Federal High Court, who was among those recalled by the National Judicial Council on June 7 to resume duties. The judicial body, explaining the recall, said that the anti-graft and security agencies had failed to establish cases of corruption against them.
But an unimpressed EFCC has filed a new 14-count charge against Nganjiwa, accusing him of unlawful enrichment and “making false information to an officer of the EFCC”.
He was accused of receiving $144,000, $102,000 and other such sums, monies the anti-graft agency said he could not “reasonably explain.”
The anti-graft agency on the same day also filed charges against another judge, Mohammed Yunusa. He was accused by the EFCC of receiving money from two senior advocates, Rickey Tarfa and Joseph Nwobike in a four-count charge.
The NJC had recalled six of the eight suspended judges. Those who were recalled alongside Nganjiwa and Yunusa are John Okoro of the Supreme Court, Uwani Aji of the Court of Appeal, Adeniyi Ademola of the Federal High Court, Musa Kurya of the Federal High Court, and Agbadu James Fishim of National Industrial Court of Nigeria.
Operatives of of the Department of State Services, DSS, had raided the homes of the said judges sometime in November 2016 and claimed that huge sums of money were found in their homes.
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