Niger State Judicial Service Commission (NJSC) has dismissed from service the Magistrate Court Judge of Salka in Magama local government council of the state, Mohammed Bako Iya over gross misconduct and abuse of Judicial power.
Announcing the development at a press briefing in the state capital, Minna, the Secretary of the commission, Abdulrahman Ahmed Garafini, also stated that the Commission has demoted two sharia court judges by one grade level.
They are Abdullahi Nasiru, the Sharia Judge of Kotun Bola, Minna, and his colleague in Badeggi, Mohammed Baba Enagi.
They were accused of misconduct and abuse of office.
The NJSC secretary said the sanctioned judicial officers would also serve a tutelage of one year in other courts.
The decisions of the commission, he said, were taken at its 136th meeting this month after consideration of the recommendations by the committees set up to investigate petitions against the judges.
According to him, out of seven petitions, three were against the dismissed judge, adding that two were sufficiently proved by the petitioners.
He told reporters that the report and recommendations of the Justice Mohammed Mohammed-led committee also indicted Mohammed Bako for “practically jettisoning his call as a judicial officer” by representing and shielding a suspect, Saba Idris, from arrest by police and the court.