Two judicial officers have been recommended for compulsory retirement by The National Judicial Council NJC, Shu’aibu Talba the Grand Kadi of Yobe State, and Justice Abdulkareem Babatunde Abdulrasaq of Osun State High Court will face a forced retirement for alleged age falsification.
The NJC’s Director, Information, Mr Soji Oye, stated in a statement on Sunday that the council took its decision at its 93rd meeting held virtually on December 16, 2020.
According to him, the council has discovered that the Grand Kadi Talba ought to have retired in February 2020, and Justice Abdulrasaq in September 2020.
He said council “has” in the exercise of its constitutional disciplinary powers “suspended Hon. Grand Kadi Talba and Hon. Justice Abdul-Kareem Babatunde Abdulrasaq from office pending the approval of the recommendation of their compulsory retirements by their respective governors”.
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He also stated that the council has requested for deductions their gratuities by their state governors from the cumulative salaries they had received from the point when their retirement was due and was exceeded.
The statement noted that “Grand Kadi Shu’aibu Talba was recommended for compulsory retirement following an investigation into a petition against him written by one Malam Zakar Adamu, Chairman, Movement for Justice in Nigeria, alleging that His Lordship falsified his age on two occasions, i.e. from February 1, 1955 to August 27, 1955 and later to December 30, 1959.”
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