Following the recent revelation of Senator Adamu Bulkachuwa, the 83 years old husband of immediate-past Appeal Court President, Justice Zainab Bulkachuwa, on how he influenced the judgments of the Appeal Court for his colleagues in the National Assembly, while his wife (Zainab) held forth as Head of the Court in Nigeria.

A human rights organization, the Centre for Human Rights and Social Justice (CHRSJ), has urged the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Hon. Justice Oluwakayode Ariwoola, and National Judicial Council (NJC) to begin close monitoring of the Justices of Nigeria Courts, saying that the Bulkachuwa’s public revelation should not be treated with levity.

CHRSJ declared that Bulkachuwa, and others like him, have destroyed the nation’s Judicial system with their illegal influence and interference on the outcome of court processes in Nigeria.

Calling for the immediate arrest of Senator Adamu Bulkachuwa by the security agents for questioning because his revelation on the important arm of the government was weighty, the group said such revelation should not be swept under the carpet.

It noted that the arrest of Senator Bulkachuwa would make Nigerians to know the level of damage his wife, Justice Zainab, had done to the nation’s judicial system and would also give the opportunity to the National Judicial Council (NJC) to know how to curb such occurrence in our judicial system in future.

In a statement by the Executive Chairman of the Centre for Human Rights and Social Justice (CHRSJ), Comrade Adeniyi Alimi Sulaiman, asserted that if the nation’s judiciary could be manipulated by Dick and Harry to this extent, the hard-earned integrity of judiciary as the last hope of common man would be in jeopardy.

Reacting to the denial by Justice Zainab Bulkachuwa of her husband public confession, the group declared that the denial, as a damage control measure, could not hold water as God has used her husband to expose her hidden deeds in office.

According to CHRSJ: “This is absurd and wrong signal for our judiciary where spouses, family members and friends would be interfering in determining the outcome of the court cases and this would make the populace to lose hope in the judiciary by resorting to anarchy.

“In recent time, the common man in Nigeria, begins to wonder why judgments that come out of the courts are short of expectations and this is a pointer that the integrity of the nation's judiciary has been compromised by the judicial officers by giving judgments to the highest bidder.

“The way and manner, the judiciary is being influenced by the so-called Politicians, if the NJC does not stop it, they would stop the judiciary from function again and it would be very disastrous for our democratic society and a stitch in time, saves nine.”

It would be recalled that 83-year-old Senator Bulkachuwa, who represented Bauchi North Senatorial District in the 9^th National Assembly, made the disclosure during the Senate valedictory session penultimate Saturday at the upper chamber of the National Assembly.

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