Bulkachuwa’s Revelation: Monitor Your Judges Now! – Rights Group Tells CJN & NJC

Following the recent revelation of Senator Adamu Bulkachuwa, the husband of immediate past Appeal Court President, Justice Zainab Bulkachuwa, on how he influenced the judgments of the Appeal Court for his colleagues in the National Assembly, while his wife (Zainab) held forth as Head of the Court in Nigeria.

A human rights organization, the Centre for Human Rights and Social Justice
(CHRSJ) has urged the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Hon. Justice
Oluwakayode Ariwoola and National Judicial Council (NJC) to begin the close monitoring of the Justices of the Nigeria Courts, saying that the Bulkachuwa’s public revelation could not be taken with levity hand.

It declared that Bulkachuwa and others like him, had destroyed the nation’s
Judicial system underneath with their illegal influence and interference of
the outcome of the Court process in Nigeria.

Calling for the immediate arrest of Senator Adamu Bulkachuwa by the
Security agents for questioning because his revelation on the important arm
of the government is weighty which was not allowed to be swept under the
carpet.

It noted that the arrest of Senator Bulkachuwa would make Nigerians to know
the level of damages his wife, Justice Zainab had made on the nation’s
judicial system and it would also give the opportunity to the National
Judicial Council (NJC) to know how to curb such occurrence in our judicial
system in the nearest future.

In a signed statement by the Executive Chairman of the Centre for Human
Rights and Social Justice (CHRSJ), Comrade Adeniyi Alimi Sulaiman and copies
were made to newsmen on Monday, disclosed that if the nation’s judiciary
could be manipulated by dick and harry to this extent, the hard earned
integrity of judiciary as the last hope of common man would be in jeopardy.

Speaking on the denial of Justice Zainab Bulkachuwa of her husband public
confession, the group declared that the denial as damage control could not
hold water as God has used her husband to expose her hidden deeds in office.

According to CHRSJ,”This is absurd and wrong signal for our judiciary where
the spouses, family members and friends would be interference in
determining the outcome of the Court cases and this would make the
populace to loss hope in the judiciary by resulting the society to anarchy
State.

“In recent time, the common man in Nigeria, begins to wonder why judgments
come out of Courts, are short of expectations and this is a pointer that
the integrity of the nation’s judiciary has been compromised by the
judicial officers by giving judgments to the highest bidder.

“The way and manner, the judiciary being influenced by the so called
politicians. If the NJC does not stop it, they would stop the judiciary to
function again and it would be a great disastrous for our democratic
society and a stitch in time, saves nine”.

It would be recalled that 83-year-old Senator Bulkachuwa, who represented
Bauchi North Senatorial District in the 9th National Assembly, made the
disclosure during the Senate valedictory session penultimate Saturday at
the upper chamber of the National Assembly.