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CJN Ibrahim Muhammad Swears In 22 New FCT Judges, Warns Them Against Abuse Of Office

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Ibrahim Muhammad, chief justice of Nigeria (CJN), has warned the 22 newly appointed judges of the federal capital territory (FCT) in the direction of abuse of office.

 

The 22 new judges are among the many many 33 candidates nominated in April 2020 by the Nationwide Judicial Council (NJC) to President Muhammadu Buhari for appointment.

 

Although a go nicely with had been instituted in the direction of the nomination of the judges, a federal extreme courtroom in Abuja dismissed the matter on the concept that the plaintiff lacked the locus standi to file the go nicely with.

 

Okon Abang, the presiding determine, moreover acknowledged the courtroom lacks the jurisdiction to entertain the matter.

 

Eleven of the judges had been sworn in on September 14, 2020.

 

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The swearing-in ceremony of the remaining judges held on Tuesday on the first courtroom of the supreme courtroom in Abuja.

 

The CJN requested the model new judges to flee from one thing that may ship them into disrepute within the midst of their new job.

“You may need merely entered proper right into a lifetime covenant with the almighty God and the Federal Republic of Nigeria. Henceforth, regardless of you do rightly will most likely be counted, and accordingly, recorded in your favour,” he acknowledged.

 

“Equally, regardless of wrongdoing that emanates from any sort of indiscretion and abuse of office, will, in like methodology, be used to conscientise, chastise and utterly sanitise the equivalent conscience that you just may need refused to take heed to.

 

“Appointment to the bench is simply not an appointment to wealth, vainglory, dishonest disposition or ostentatious life-style by way of corrupt acquaintances.

 

“The searchlight of the Nationwide Judicial Council beams brightly on all judicial officers all through the nation. Our radar is refined enough to detect every sort of corruption and wrongdoing.

“The remoteness of your location of adjudication can certainly not blur our sight on you. Now we’ve got very extremely efficient lens to grab and doc your conduct; so be careful and take heed, or else, chances are high you may end up regretting ever being appointed a judicial officer. We don’t pray for that, anyway!

 

“All of the letters and phrases of the oath you’ve got gotten merely taken ought to reside in a main place of your coronary coronary heart and be generously utilized in your adjudications.

 

“This could be a bond that it is best to engrave in your coronary coronary heart and must be successfully guided by it whereas adjudicating in all points that come sooner than you. You should endeavour to be impartial, truthful to all, and apply justice and equity in your entire undertakings.”