PRESIDENT BUHARI APPROVES RETIREMENT, DISMISSAL OF JUSTICES

‘Following recommendations from the National Judicial Council (NJC), President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the compulsory retirement of Honourable Justice A. F. A Ademola of the Abuja Division of the Federal High Court and the dismissal from office of Honourable Justice O.O Tokode of the Benin Division of the Federal High Court’,  statement reads.

The statement added further that, the disciplinary actions on the two Justices are in pursuance of section 292 (1) (b) of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (as amended),just as it added that the President urged judicial officers to be alive to their responsibilities and eschew corruption in the discharge of their duties.

‘Justice O.O. Tokode is also to refund all salaries and allowances earned illegally from 2nd December, 2015 when he was sworn-in as a Judge of the Federal High Court to date’, the statement added.