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The National Judicial Council NJC, has suspended two of its judges, acting president of the Customary Court of Appeal, Francis Chukwuma Abosi and a judge of Bauchi State High Court, Aliyu Musa Liman over judicial misconduct.
According to a statement by the NJC Director of Information, Soji Oye, while Abosi was suspended for falsification of his date of birth from 1950 to 1958, Liman was for his ‘failure to deliver judgement in suit No BA/100/2010, between Abubakar Isa and Sheik Tahir Usman Bauchi within the three months period stipulated by the 1999 constitution of the federal republic of Nigeria’.
Oye stated that “Abosi was recommended for compulsory retirement following the falsification of his date of birth from 1950 to 1958.
“Findings showed that he was supposed to have retired in November 2015 when he clocked the mandatory retirement age of Sixty five (65) years.
“Council decided to recommend for his compulsory retirement to governor Hope Uzodinma of Imo State and to also deduct the salaries he had earned from November 2015 to date from his retirement benefit.”
He said the NJC also forwarded its recommendation for the compulsory retirement of Liman to the governor of Bauchi state for deferring judgement in a case for over four months in violation of the stipulations of the constitution.
Oye stated: “Musa Liman was recommended to the Bauchi State Governor, Bala Mohammed for compulsory retirement pursuant to the findings by the council for his failure to deliver judgement in suit No BA/100/2010, between Abubakar Isa and Sheik Tahir Usman Bauchi within the three months period stipulated by the 1999 constitution of the federal republic of Nigeria.
“Council viewed his lordship’s failure to deliver judgement for nearly four years as a misconduct, contrary to section 292 (1)(b) of the constitution of the federal republic of Nigeria, 1999, as amended and rules 1.3 and 3.7 of the 2016 revised code of conduct for judicial officers of the federal republic of Nigeria.”
He further disclosed that the judges were suspended pending the approval of the recommendation for their compulsory retirement by their state governors.
