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THE federal government has taken three senior judicial officers of the Supreme Court to court for forgery and fraud amounting to N2.2 billion. According to the criminal charges before an Abuja High Court, Saleh Gambo, chief registrar of the Supreme Court, was charged alongside Rilwanu Lawal, assistant director of Finance at the Supreme Court, and Sharif Abdulrahman, deputy director of Finance.
The charges filed against the trio on Thursday, November 3, at a high court of the Federal Capital Territory by the Attorney General of the Federation, stated that the officials collected bribes amounting to tens of millions of naira.
The charges claimed that Saleh, Sharif and Lawal diverted N2. 2 billion belonging to the Supreme Court to their personal bank account at the United Bank for Africa, with account number: 2027642863.
Interestingly, Saleh had been pencilled down as the next secretary of the National Judicial Council, the News Agency of Nigeria reports.
Saleh, who is from Hadejia, in Jigawa State, graduated from both Bayero University in Kano and Usmanu Dan Fodio University, Sokoto.
He and the other two suspects were also accused of collecting tens of millions of naira as gratification contrary to the provisions of the Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Act.
— Nov 14, 2016 @ 01:00 GMT
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