Alleged gross misconduct: Kogi Chief Judge asked to step aside

THE Executive Secretary, Anti-Corruption and Research-Based Data
Initiative (ARDI), Chief Dennis Aghanya, on Tuesday, told the Kogi
State Chief Judge, Justice Nasiru Ajanah, to step aside to enable
security agencies to conduct proper investigations into the
allegations levelled against him.

Chief Aghanya, at a press conference in Abuja, said the National
Judicial Commission (NJC) had failed to address the substance of
the allegations against Ajanah, who was indicted for gross
misconduct by the Kogi State House of Assembly, threatening to take
further steps against the CJ if he failed to step aside.

He also accused the NJC of giving the embattled Chief Judge what
it described as a soft landing.

According to him: “The Kogi State House of Assembly has
statutorily done the needful by investigating the report and
aligned itself with the state Auditor-General.

“It is on the basis of this that we are calling on the NJC to
ask the State Chief Judge to step aside and allow the necessary
agencies to investigate the matter and do the needful.

“Failure to address our petition after seven days would compel
us to graduate into the next level of action.”
“We consider this pattern of soft landing as dangerous precedence
by the NJC. It should learn to call a spade a spade so that justice
can actually be seen to be dispensed.” He explained.

Chief Aghanya, who wrote the petition which led to the
suspension and eventual prosecution of the former Chief Justice of
Nigeria, Justice Walter Onnoghen at the Code of Conduct Tribunal,
further accused the NJC of settling a dangerous precedent, adding
that it sent a similar recommendation to President Muhammadu Buhari
on the former CJN which the President disregarded.

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