NJC Investigation Committee concludes hearing on the Petition filled by the Civil Society Engagement Platform CSEP against eighteen Judges of the Imo State Judiciary.
It was a duelling two days of intensive work by the NJC Investigation Committee handling the Petition by a coalition of Civil Society groups; CSEP. The Committee started sitting on Wednesday, 7th May, 2025 and concluded on Thursday, 8th May, 2025.
Reliable sources close to the Committee confirmed to news men that it was indeed a fact finding investigation committee as piles of documents were tendered by the Petitioners. It was gathered that most of the affected Judges appeared before the Committee with high profile Lawyers including many of the ranks of Senior Advocates of Nigeria SAN.
Feelers shows that the Petitioners; the Civil Society Engagement Platform CSEP did a thorough background work before presenting the Petition to the NJC as it was revealed that they even went as far as securing hard evidence of the ages of younger siblings of some of the Judges as a further proof that those Judges falsified their ages.
It was revealed that the first Judge that appeared before that panel had claimed to be born in 1960 while the Civil Society group has concrete evidence that his younger brother who schooled at CIC Enugu was born in 1960; thereby making the Judge’s claim a complete fallacy because he is not a twin and so; couldn’t have been born same year as her younger brother.
