Justice Umar Takes Over From Suspended Ekwo, Federal High Court CJ Redeploys Others
Suspended Justice Inyang Edem Ekwo of the Federal High court Abuja division has now been replaced.
Recall, Justice Inyang Edem Ekwo was suspended for one year by the National Judicial Council (NJC).
The judge’s replacement was read in a statement on Sunday by the Director of Information of the Court, Dr Catherine Oby Christopher.
The statement read:
“The chief judge of the Federal High Court, Hon. Justice John Tsoho, KSS, OFR, FCIArb. (UK) has effected the redeployment of some judges of the court.
“The general public is hereby notified that all cases pending before Court No. 5 in the Abuja Judicial Division will be attended to by the judge who has been moved to Abuja for that purpose.
“Consequently, there is no need for litigants and /or counsel to apply to the Hon. Chief Judge for re-assignment of cases that have been pending before the court,”.
In the statement, the Chief Judge (CJ) of the Federal High Court of Nigeria, Justice John Tsoho has replaced Justice Inyang Edem Ekwo with Justice M. G. Umar who was moved from Enugu judicial division to Abuja.
Four other judges have also been redeployed from their current divisions to other divisions with immediate effect as read in the statement.
Justices M. G. Umar was redeployed from Enugu judicial division to Abuja.
Tijjani Garba Ringim, from Gombe division to Yola division, M. T. Segun-Bello, from Abakaliki division to Enugu division.
Bala Khalifa-Mohammed Usman, from Yola division to Awka division.
Amina Aliyu Mohammed, from Awka division to Gombe division.
The statement said the affected judges have been directed to deliver all pending judgements in their current stations within the shortest possible time.
Meanwhile, the judges currently resident in the Abakaliki and Katsina judicial divisions have been directed to take responsibility for all the cases already pending or newly instituted in their respective divisions until otherwise instructed.
In a related development, the general public was notified that all cases pending before Court No. 5 in the Abuja judicial division will be attended to by the judge who has been moved to Abuja for that purpose.
Consequently, the Chief Judge explained that there is no need for litigants or counsel to apply to his office for re-assignment of cases that have been pending before the Court of suspended Justice Inyang Edem Ekwo.
David Olayiwola reporting for The Pendulum Media
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