A FEDERAL high court judge, Justice Yinusa Mohammed has been arraigned by the Economic and Financial Crime Commission, EFCC, before an Ikeja high court for corruption offences. Arraigned alongside Yinusa is one Esther Agbo, a staff of Rickey Tarfa law chambers in Lagos. However, both Yinusa and Agbo pleaded not guilty to the charges.

Yinusa, according to the charges brought against him before Justice Mojisola Dada by the EFCC was alleged to have received several sums of money from Joseph Nwobike and Rickey Tarfa, both senior advocates, to pervert the course of justice. He was particularly alleged to have received N1.5m from Nwobike so as to give a favourable ruling in a matter before him. The judge was also alleged to have on March 5, 2015, received another N750,000 from Nwobike in order to give a decision in his favour.

The EFCC also alleged that Agbo being a staff of Rickey Tarfa law firm offered Yinusa N1.5m to influence a matter which the chamber had before him.

– Jan.  17, 2018 @ 14:26 GMT /