Judges handling corruption cases against public officers have been placed under security watch.
This development was disclosed by the chairman of the presidential advisory committee on anti-corruption, Professor Itse Sagay, Nigerian Tribune reports.
Sagay said the inability to get upright judges that will prosecute President Muhammadu Buhari’s anti-corruption fight necessitated the new development.
It was learnt that many of the judges that have undergone the present administration’s integrity test were said to have failed.
He did not however mention the names of those being monitored but the legal luminary noted with dismay that the rot in the judiciary had made getting upright judges difficult.
The professor of law added that the establishment of special court would be constituted once the constitution is amended to carter for it.
The reform being planned in the anti-corruption war would also see anti-corruption agencies being monitored by the advisory body as a way of checking with the inside from the outside.
Sagay’s committee may also become the warehouse for petitions for the public before they are sent to the appropriate anti-corruption bodies, after being sieved by the presidential team.
He said: “with all the relevant agencies like EFCC, ICPC and others, we intend to effectively collaborate with them.”
“They have nothing to fear. We are not out to take their jobs from them. All this hostility must stop. We have been vested with the powers to recommend people for prosecution. A lot of people who are supposed to welcome us have been hostile. We are here to make their work lighter. All we are going to do is to increase the investigative capacity of these agencies.”
Meanwhile, new report had showed that the inspector general of police, Solomon Arase, had written to the EFCC for the withdrawal of police officers that have served over five years in the commission.
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