Ganduje’s probe: Court gives Kano Judges 48-hrs to resign appointment

A Federal High Court sitting in Kano and presided over by Justice Simon Amobeda has given 48 hours deadline to two Kano Judges, Justice Farouk Lawan Adamu and Justice Zuwaira Yusuf appointed by Kano State Governor, Abba Yusuf to serve as Chairman of the Judicial Commission of Inquiry for the Recovery of Misappropriated Public Properties and Assets, and Chairman of Judicial Commission of Inquiry to investigate Political Violence and Missing Persons respectively, to resign their appointments.

He said the judges should desist from performing executive functions assigned to them by the Governor of Kano State in Court rooms meant to adjudicate disputes between persons and authorities in Kano State. “That, by the combined effects of the provisions of Sections 6, 84, 153, 271, 272 together with Paragraph 21 of Part 1 of the Third Schedule to the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 , the 4th and 5” Defendants are not legally permitted, while still purporting to hold the Office of Judge of High Court of Kano State, to accept appointments as Chairmen of Commissions of Inquiry with quasi-judicial powers equivalent powers to that of a Magistrate Court and subject to review by a...

“That, in view of the decision of this Honourable Court coram: Hon. Justice A.M. Liman in Suit No.

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