Nigerian Judge Caught Trying to Steal Money From Frozen Bank Account of Petitioner.

The Judicial Service Commission has taken disciplinary actions against three magistrates and a registrar of the Kano High Court over misconduct, with a magistrate caught attempting to steal funds from a frozen bank account.

This was announced in a statement signed by the spokesman for the JSC, Baba Jibo-Ibrahim, on Monday.

The statement said that the Judiciary Public Complaints Committee’s investigation of three petitions filed against Ms Makama found her guilty of misconduct.

According to the statement, the investigation revealed that she ordered GTBank to transfer money from a petitioner’s already frozen account into her personal account, which she clearly admitted in her response.

It said the second petition also found elements amounting to judicial bias in her handling of matters.

According to the statement, in the third petition, she was found to have received a case and made an order to the police even before the case was assigned to her.

He further said that the investigation revealed that senior registrar Abdu Nasir received payments of fees meant for court records into his personal account, which constitutes serious misconduct.