Laughing galore!!!!!! Awon kan leri, won ni awon fe gbajoba!!!!! Kole se se, ko le bo si!!!! Kosomo na, koseni na, ti yo je ose. NJC VERDICTS on EKITI SLAPPING GALORE PART 1 !!!!! PREMIUM TIMES NJC condemns attack on Ekiti judges, demands immediate probe October 2, 2014 The National Judicial Council, NJC, has condemned the attack on judicial officers in Ekiti State and has called on the Inspector-General of Police to immediately investigate the attacks. The council, “in very strong terms” deplored the attacks launched on judges and other judicial workers in the state last week, a statement said Thursday. Political thugs backing the governor-elect of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose, stormed court rooms were election petition hearings were held last week, manhandling judges and other staffers. The attacks drew widespread condemnations. The federal government has yet to order an investigation. The NJC, Nigeria’s highest judicial regulatory body, urged the police chief to take over the matter and investigate allegations that police officers refused to intervene while the attacks lasted. The NJC “in very strong terms, condemns the attacks on the judiciary and judicial officers in particular, the one carried out in High Court Complex, Ado-Ekiti on Sept. 22 and Sept. 25, 2014,” a statement by Soji Oye, the council’s Acting Director of Information, said Thursday. “NJC also requests the Inspector-General of Police to take over and investigate the alleged attacks on Hon. Justices John Adeyeye and Isaac Olusegun Ogunyemi, `including some members of staff of the court,” the statement added. Mr. Oye said the statement was issued after an emergency meeting of the NJC presided over by the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Mariam Aloma-Mukhtar, the Chief Justice of Nigeria. The meeting was convened to consider complaints received on the attacks. The affected judges had petitioned the NJC after the attack. “NJC also requests the inspector-general of police to investigate the destruction of property of the High Court of Justice, Ado-Ekiti and bring the culprits to justice. “It requests the inspector-general of police as a matter of urgency to provide adequate security to judicial officers and the judiciary in Ekiti State,’’ the statement stated. According to the statement, all petitions forwarded by all parties to the council on the matter are being looked into. (NAN) VANGUARD Ekiti court attack: NJC seeks prosecution of culprits on October 03, 2014 By Ikechukwu Nnochiri ABUJA—The National Judicial Council, NJC, at the end of an emergency meeting it held in Abuja yesterday, said it would not rest until those that masterminded the attacks on two judges in Ekiti State were arrested and prosecuted. The Council, in a statement that was signed by its Acting Director of Information, Mr. Soji Oye, requested the Inspector-General of Police to personally “take-over and investigate the alleged attacks on Hon. Justices John Adeyeye and Isaac Olusegun Ogunyemi, some members of staff of the court and vandalization of property of the High Court of Justice, Ado-Ekiti and bring the culprits to justice”. The meeting which was held at the NJC headquarters situated inside the Supreme Court complex at the Three-Arms-Zone in Abuja, was chaired by the Chief Justice of Nigeria, CJN, Justice Mariam Aloma Mukhtar herself. “Following the recent unfortunate and worrisome incidents in Ekiti State Judiciary, particularly in the High Court Complex, Ado-Ekiti, the National Judicial Council held an emergency meeting on October 2, 2014, under the Chairmanship of Hon. Justice Aloma Mariam Mukhtar, GCON, and considered the various complaints and petitions forwarded to it. At the end of the meeting, Council decided as follows: i). In very strong terms condemned the attacks on the judiciary and judicial officers in general across the country and in particular, the one carried out in High Court Complex, Ado-Ekiti on 22nd and 25th September, 2014. ii). Requested the Inspector General of Police to take over and investigate the alleged attacks on Hon. Justices John Adeyeye and Isaac Olusegun Ogunyemi, some members of staff of the court and vandalisation of property of the High Court of Justice, Ado-Ekiti and bring the culprits to justice . iii). Requested the Inspector-General of Police as a matter of urgency to provide adequate security to judicial officers and the judiciary in Ekiti State. iv). All petitions forwarded by all parties to the Council on the matter are being looked into”, the statement read. It will be recalled that both the governor-elect of Ekiti State,Mr. Ayodele Fayose and the Chief Judge of the state, Justice Ayodeji Daramola had separately sent petitions to the NJC. Meanwhile, whereas Fayose, in his own petition, denied leading thugs into the Ekiti State High Court where a suit seeking to invalidate his election victory was being heard, he alleged that the outgoing governor of the state, Kayode Fayemi and his party, the All Progressives Congress, APC, had already compromised all the Justices in the election petition tribunal. On the other hand, the CJ, insisted that it was Fayose that led the thugs that turned the Ekiti State High Court premises into a theater of violence. - See more at: vanguardngr/2014/10/ekiti-court-attack-njc-seeks-prosecution-culprits/#sthash.iKuHbiDK.dpuf _____________________________________________________________________________ LEADERSHIP NJC Asks IGP To Probe Attacks On Judges In Ekiti Kunle Olasanmi — Oct 3, 2014 Following the recent happenings in Ekiti State Judiciary, the National Judicial Council (NJC) has asked the inspector-general of police to take over the investigation into the alleged attacks on Hon Justices John Adeyeye and Isaac Olusegun Ogunyemi of a High Court in Ado Ekiti, Ekiti State. The NJC in a statement also asked the police boss to investigate alleged attacks on some members of staff of the court and vandalism of the property of the court and bring the culprits to justice. After a meeting of the judicial body, chaired by the chief justice of Nigeria, Justice Mariam Aloma Mukhtar, the NJC also asked the IGP to, as a matter of urgency, provide adequate security for judicial officers and the judiciary in Ekiti State. The NJC said all petitions forwarded by all parties to the council on the matter are being looked into. Last week, some thugs in the state allegedly attacked judges in the state after a ruling, which did not favour a particular politician was delivered. In the statement signed by the acting director in charge of information at the NJC, the judicial body condemned in strong terms the attacks on the judiciary and judicial officers in general across the country and in particular, the ones carried out in the High Court Complex, Ado-Ekiti on 22nd and 25th September, 2014. _______________________________________________________________________________ TRIBUNE Investigate Ekiti court’s attack, NJC tells IGP 03.Oct.2014 The National Judicial Council (NJC), on Thursday, urged the Inspector-General of Police (IGP) to commence investigation into the alleged attacks on Justices John Adeyeye and Isaac Olusegun Ogunyemi, some members of staff of the court and vandalisation of property of the High Court of Justice, Ado-Ekiti and bring the culprits to justice. NJC, which is under the chairmanship of Justice Aloma Mariam Mukhtar, lamented the attacks on the Judges of the Ekiti High Court and requested that the Inspector-General of Police should, as a matter of urgency, provide adequate security to judicial officers and the judiciary in the state. A statement by the Acting Director (Information) of the NJC, Soji Oye, said the council held an emergency meeting on Thursday and considered the various complaints and petitions forwarded to it. NJC condemned the attacks on the judiciary and judicial officers in general across the country and in particular, the one carried out in the High Court Complex, Ado-Ekiti, on September 22 and 25, 2014. The statement said all petitions forwarded by parties to the council on the matter were being looked into. Meanwhile, Ekiti State authorities have ordered the immediate shut down of all state courts after the attack on law officials. It will be recalled that thugs descended on Justice John Adeyeye, beating him up,tearing his clothes for being allegedly rude to Mr Fayose. The trouble ended the purposed tribunal sitting, as judicial workers ran away from their duty post for safety. The state Chief Judge, Justice A. Daramola had issued an order to all the state courts not open to until security officials could guarantee security for officials of the law. In a statement signed by the Chief Registrar, Obafemi Fasanmi, said: “The chief judge has noted with increasing concern the spate of attacks perpetrated by political thugs and their persistent presence in the premises of the High Court, Ado Ekiti, in the past few days”. The registrar alleged that policemen on duty looked away as the thugs attacked the officials. ______________________________________________________________________________ VANGUARD Ekiti court attacks: NJC to constitute a probe panel today on October 02, 2014 ABUJA—Worried by the violence in Ekiti state and alleged assault on a High Court judge at the premises of Ado-Ekiti High Court, the National Judicial Council, NJC, will today, constitute a panel to investigate allegations by both the governor-elect of the state, Mr. Ayodele Fayose and the Chief Judge, Justice Ayodeji Daramola on the fracas. This was even as a top source in the Council yesterday disclosed that the duo may be summoned to appear before the probe panel to substantiate their allegations against each other. Already, the governor-elect was said to have assembled a five-man team of Senior Advocates of Nigeria to argue and persuade the NJC to disband the members of the Ekiti State Election Tribunal on the allegation that they have been compromised. The source who pleaded anonymity, confirmed that the NJC had on Monday, received two separate petitions from the governor-elect and the state CJ, with both of them pointing accusing fingers at each other. Besides, the source said that the Chief Justice of Nigeria, CJN, who is equally the Chairman of the NJC, was greatly disturbed by the wave of violence that led to the closure of courts in Ekiti State and has through a letter of notification that was sent to all the members of the Council, urged them to ensure their attendance at the emergency meeting scheduled for 10am today. “What I can tell you is that the CJN is ready to use this Ekiti State matter to set an example. It was a sad commentary for this country that thugs could invade a court, beat up judges and tore their records of proceeding. Where on earth does such things happen in this modern era? Not even in a banana republic. “The incident in Ekiti was a bad precedent and if no concrete and drastic action is taken by the NJC now to ferret and punish those that were in one way or the other connected to this defecation of the temple of justice, what will happen after the 2015 general elections would best be imagined”, the source told Vanguard. Besides, he disclosed that today’s meeting of the NJC members would be held in camera. Fayose denies involvement Meanwhile, whereas Fayose, in his own petition, denied leading thugs into the Ekiti State High Court where a suit seeking to invalidate his election victory was being heard, he alleged that the outgoing governor of the state, Kayode Fayemi and his party, the All Progressives Congress, APC, had already bribed all the Justices in the election petition tribunal. He expressed doubt over their ability to remain non-partisan, insisting that it would be in the interest of justice that they were sacked and a fresh panel constituted that will hear and determine the petition against his election, within the constitutional prescribed time-frame. Gov-elect personally led thugs — CJ However, while justifying his decision to shut all courts in the state as a result of the “show of shame”, the state CJ, Justice Daramola, in his petition, insisted that it was indeed the governor-elect himself that personally led the thugs that besieged the High Court premises and turned it into a theatre of violence. The CJ equally alleged police involvement, noting that some of the policemen within the court premises when the incident took place, looked on with disinterest as the marauders had a field day chasing Judges around the court. “The police officers posted to guard and protect the integrity of the court and its personnel have failed us”, he told the NJC, adding that the judges were on that day, left “at the mercy of political hoodlums”. In his petition entitled, ‘Ekiti State Judiciary under siege of political thugs’, the Chief Judge, told the Council that on Thursday, the 25th day of September, “Mr. Ayodele Fayose, the governor-elect, again led thousands of people and thugs into the premises of the High Court beating and maiming members of staff”. He said: “The thugs invaded my court where I was to deliver a judgment in a land matter, tore the record books, beat court officials and vandalized the furniture in Court No. 1. “The political thugs descended on Hon. Justice J. A Adeyeye, the presiding judge in Court No. 3 beat and dragged him on the ground. The judge’s suit was also torn into shreds. I could not gain entrance into the premises of the court and had to hurriedly turn back on being alerted that I was the prime target of the hooligans”, he added. The CJ maintained that he was at the Supreme Court in Abuja attending a special court session to flag-off the 2014/ 2015 new legal year, an occasion that also saw the conferment of the rank of Senior Advocate of Nigeria on 17 senior lawyers, when the violence first broke out in Ekiti State on Monday, September 22. “While I was attending the Supreme Court Special sitting in Abuja, I was called on phone that thugs loyal to Mr. Ayodele Fayose have invaded the headquarters of the judiciary of Ekiti State where Hon. Justice I.O Ogunyemi was delivering a ruling on the matter instituted against him. “The thugs beat workers black and blue while the presiding judge and lawyers had to run for their lives. They smashed windows and furniture. Meanwhile, the policemen deployed within and without the premises in large number were looking on completely uninterested and unconcerned while these thugs were on prowl beating and maiming workers and court users. “The thugs went on searching for the judge who ran into hiding. It took your (the Commissioner of Police) personal intervention when you were duly informed on phone to rush to the scene of the mayhem within the court premises to rescue the said judge and took him out into safety”, he added. He insisted that the violence was pre-planned, adding that the “political hoodlums”, invaded the court in large numbers, “on the spurious ground that they came to listen to the ruling which they did not allow the presiding judge in Court No. 6 to deliver on Monday, September 22, 2014”. NBA sends delegation Meanwhile, the Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, has already sent a high powered delegation to Ekiti State with a view to ascertaining the cause of the violence. The National President of the legal body Mr. Augustine Alegeh, SAN, who made the disclosure in a statement he issued to the press, described the incident as unfortunate, saying it “portends grave danger to the lives of our Judges in Ekiti State”. The NBA insisted that there is “an urgent need to protect our Judges and judiciary staff from these hoodlums whom we believe must be acting on instructions from some highly placed persons in Ekiti State to unleash mayhem on judicial officers and infrastructure. “We condemn in very strong terms these detestable acts of brigandage intended to intimidate and infuse fear into the minds of judicial officers. Those behind these criminal acts of violence have desecrated the Courts which are our temples of justice.” “The administration of justice can never thrive in an atmosphere where judicial officers are brazenly attacked and or intimidated in the course of carrying out their lawful duties. The administration of justice can never bow to the whims and caprices of persons who believe that judges must yield to their wishes. “The NBA is sending a high powered fact finding team to Ekiti to investigate the facts surrounding this matter. Any person(s), no matter how highly placed, found involved in this show of shame and desecration of our Courts shall surely face the full force of the law as NBA will ensure prosecution of any such person(s). We will not allow persons who do not mean well for our society take steps capable of plunging our country into anarchy “ it stated. - See more at: vanguardngr/2014/10/ekiti-court-attacks-njc-constitute-probe-panel-today/#sthash.HgvbUSNE.dpuf
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