Eniola Akinkuotu, Abuja
The Chairman, Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption, Prof. Itse Sagay (SAN), has denied threatening judges who ignore the provisions of the Administration of Criminal Justice Act.
Sagay said this in a statement on Monday while reacting to a newspaper publication (Not the PUNCH).
The PACAC chairman while responding to the headline, ‘Sagay Threatens Judges who ignores (sic) provisions of ACJA’, said he never said such.
The statement read in part, “I want to deny emphatically that I issued any threat to Judges. What I said was that same Judges still adjourn corruption cases for more than the maximum of 14 days stipulated by the ACJA and that there have also been cases in which Judges have adjourned to give rulings in interlocutory applications instead of waiting for the day of judgment on the substantive matter of corruption to read both…
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