Eight judges and two Registrars are being investigated, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) said yesterday. It said another judge under probe had secured a Federal High Court order to stop further investigation.
The EFCC said it had been in court trying to vacate the injunction of the Federal High Court. It added that those being investigated by the EFCC were not part of the nine judges being grilled by the Department of State Security Service (DSS). It faulted insinuations that there was a rift with the DSS and the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF). . . . The EFCC made the clarifications in a statement by its Head of Media and Publicity, Mr. Wilson Uwujaren against the backdrop of a report on why the Attorney-General of the Federation, Mr. Abubakar Malami (SAN) asked the DSS to probe some judges. . . .
The statement said: “It must be stated that of the seven judges who are subject of the DSS raids, only one of them previously featured in a petition on alleged corruption to the EFCC. “Investigation into the petition had reached an advanced stage, when one of the judges got a Federal High Court order to stop further investigation by the Commission. EFCC is still trying to vacate that order for the investigation to proceed unfettered.
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