A senior Nigerian judge falsely
claimed he had suffered a bereavement to get cash from litigants and lawyers appearing
in his court, the country’s main judicial body said on Thursday.
James Agbadu-Fishim “received various sums of money from litigants and lawyers that had cases before him and some influential Nigerians under the false pretence that he was bereaved or that there was a delay in the payment of his salary”, the
National Judicial Council said in a statement.
The judge sits in the National Industrial in Court but has now been “recommended for dismissal from office”, it added.
The amount of money involved was not specified.
A similar recommendation was made against another judge, Rita Ofili-Ajumogobia, after it was established that government officials, among others, had paid money into her bank accounts.AFP