Justice John Inyang Okoro opened can of worms in his letter to the Chief Justice of Nigeria and Chairman of the National Judicial Council (NJC), Justice Mahmud Mohammed, on October 17, 2016.
The legal luminary was one of the justices of the Supreme Court and five judges of the Federal High Court whose homes were raided by operatives of the Department of State Services (DSS) between October 8 and 9, 2016, for alleged corruption.
The Justice in his letter asserted that his recent arrest by DSS operatives was orchestrated by the Federal Government to humiliate him because he declined the offer made to him by the former governor of Rivers State, now Minister of Transport, Rotimi Amaechi, to influence the Supreme Court judgments in the appeals involving the governorship elections in Rivers, Akwa Ibom and Abia States in the 2015 general elections.
Nigerians have therefore questioned the effectiveness of the Rule of Law as enshrined in our constitution; a basic and dynamic legal concept that simply recognise the “supremacy of law”. Nigerians want the DSS to also investigate if actually Amaechi offered Justice Okoro bribe.
Read tweets below:
Amaechi and Malami should be sacked today.
Delaying it till tomorrow confirms what we know: @MBuhari‘s election was funded with Corruption.— Demola Olarewaju (@DemolaRewaju) October 19, 2016
Rotimi Amaechi is such a “super corrupt man”.His names alone are confusing,Rotimi + Amechi =confuse minister???
— kossy_kardashian (@kossyKardashian) October 19, 2016
@AfroVII Not for only Rivers. But since you think he’s lying, I think Amaechi should sue him for libel and disgrace him @chukwunonsojoe pic.twitter.com/EzNtoF7dRm
— Edward Israel-Ayide (@wildeyeq) October 19, 2016
Fighting corruption can’t get any interesting if the probes aint going on to get the truth of the matter. Lets know How Amaechi attempted.
— Eniola Opeyemi (@eniola_opeyemi) October 19, 2016
He will still face his charges while Amaechi allegation is investigated too. D two can be done at the same time. https://t.co/wxrc7lmxBD
— RAJI (@RajiDraj) October 19, 2016
If Amaechi is innocent, he should sue the judge, If the judges are innocent of the corruption charges, they should sue DSS
— Sidney (@sidramatic1) October 19, 2016
No need to “defend” Amaechi .. He should SUE the Judge … No need to defend the Judge … He should drop EVIDENCE … World izz not war
— Mr. JAG (@jag_bros) October 19, 2016
