▪︎As CJN grills seven CJs, reads the riot act to judges
The National Judicial Council, NJC, has okayed probe of three judges for granting ex-parte orders that were considered embarrassing to the judiciary.
Though the NJC, which has the statutory mandate to discipline erring Judges, usually acts on petitions that are forwarded to it, the Chief Justice of Nigeria, CJN, Justice Ibrahim Tanko Muhammad, after a marathon meeting with seven Chief Judges on Monday, gave a nod for the Council to investigate the three judges without a formal complaint pending against them.
The CJN doubles as Chairman of the NJC.
According to a statement that was made available to the media by the Director of Information at the NJC, Mr. Soji Oye, the CJN, came tough on the CJs he summoned to an emergency meeting over conflicting court orders that emanated from their judicial divisions within the last one month.
Sources said that the meeting which commenced at 11 a.m on Monday, lasted till about 5:30p.m.
The CJN reportedly engaged in a one-on-one interaction with the CJs.
The CJs that were separately grilled for an hour each by the CJN on Monday, were those of the Federal Capital Territory, Rivers, Kebbi, Cross River, Jigawa, Anambra and Imo State.
