CJN Swears in Acting CJ of FCT High Court, Five Kadis of Sharia Appeal Court

Alex Enumah

The Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Ibrahim Muhammad, on Monday administered the oath of office on the Acting Chief Judge (CJ) of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) High Court, Justice Hussein Baba-Yusuf, and five Kadis of the FCT Sharia Court of Appeal.

The CJN, while administering the oath of office, charged the new judicial officers to be fair and just in the discharge of their duties.

The Kadis are: Salisu Garba, Bashir Danmaisule, Lawa Sule, Abdullahi Al-Ilorin and a leading Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) prosecutor, Mohammed Salisu Abubakar.

Justice Muhammad also warned that temptations and intimidations will come their ways in the course of the duties but that they will do well to overcome.

He also urged them to remain firm and unshaken since good conscience fears no threat.

“The times that we are in, are quite perilous, so we need judicial officers that will be humble and dispassionate at the helms of affairs,” he said.

Justice Mohammad further asked them to conduct their affairs within the ambit of the law and the oath administered on them.

“The oath you have just taken should not be taken for granted. It is a pledge you have just made to the Almighty God.

“The entire letters and words of the oath you have taken must reside in a prime place of your heart and be generously applied in the daily management of both human and material resources of the Federal Capita Territory Judiciary,” he said.