According to The Nation the DSS saying that it’s attention was drawn to the account which it said contained billions of naira.
It reports that the account is being operated outside of the due process of the civil service and money inside the account is often withdrawn to fund foreign trips of some judges. Apex court staff and justices also withdraw funds from the account
“In line with the current investigation of some judges, the DSS has discovered a suspicious account in the Supreme Court. The modalities for the operation of the account allegedly against the extant financial regulations were being probed by the security agency.
“Preliminary investigation revealed that the suspicious account was used to cater for foreign trips of some judges, including a few ones who were arrested by the DSS.
“The remittances into the account were in billions of Naira. There is a strong suspicion by the DSS that the dollars seized from the residences of some of these judges were drawn from the suspicious account. “Some principal officers have been interrogated by the secret service. The manner in which the account was operated was suspected to be outside the extant laws in the civil service.''
“It is left to the civil servants to prove that the processes of opening the account and managing it were legal and transparent. Otherwise, they have a case to answer,” a highly-placed source was quoted as saying.
Meanwhile, the DSS is said to have restricted the movement of the registrar of the Supreme Court Ahmed Saleh and the director of finance Muhammed Abdulrahman Sharif and Rilwanu Lawal. Late on Friday, November 4, President Muhammadu Buhari approved the appointment of Justices Ejembi Eko and Amina A. Augie for the Supreme Court of Nigeria on the recommendation of the National Judicial Council (NJC).
Two justices will be sworn in by Mahmud Mohammed, the incumbent Chief Justice of Nigeria and chairman of the National Judicial Council on November 7, at 2pm in the Supreme Court of Nigeria.
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