Minna – The Niger state Judicial Service Commission (NSJC) has sacked a Sharia Court judge and a Registrar over allegations of fraud in the sale of the estates of a client.
The commission, similarly sacked 27 other judicial staff over alleged certificate forgery .
The Secretary of Niger State Judicial Service Commission (NJSC), Alhaji Abdulrahman Ahmed Garafini confirmed the sack of the judicial staff
He stated that 20 of the 27 sacked judicial staff were involved in certificate racketeering.
Garafini did not give details on the sack of the Sharia Court Judge and the Registrar .
However, it was gathered, that the
Sharia court judge and the court Registrar were sacked for allegedly diverting N400 million belonging to the family of late Minna business man, Alhaji Labaran Kalgo, to their personal pockets .
The money was Saud to be the proceed from sale of the deceased’s estates in Abuja and Minna which was ordered to be sold by his family through court and the money was to be shared by his children.
The Judge and the Registrar ran into trouble when a son of the deceased, Alhaji Mustapha Labaran Kalgo, wrote a petition to the Chief Judge of Niger State Justice Halima Ibrahim Abdulmalik over the the sale of the estates and the roles played by the Sharia Court Judge and the Registrar.
Upon the receipt of the petition, the Chief Judge constituted a seven-man committee headed by Justice Balkisu Gambo Yusuf, to investigate the allegations raised in the petition.
The committee in its report was said to have inducted the two judicial officers , a development which made the commission to sack them.
