… Seeks deployment of more judges to handle high profile cases
The Corruption and Financial Crime Cases Trial Monitoring Committee (COTRIMCO) of the National Judicial Council (NJC) has disclosed that shabby investigations and poor prosecution were responsible for the little success in the fight against corruption in the country.
The committee recommended that more judges be deployed to handle designated corruption cases, just as it demanded new practice directions for the trial of corruption cases.
According to the committee, these measures would help to cure anomalies in the trial of corruption cases in Nigerian courts.
The committee, which is headed by Justice Suleiman Galadima (rtd), identified poor prosecution, absence of counsel for parties in court, and reliance on irrelevant documentary evidence as the major impediments to the successful prosecution of many corruption cases, amongst other factors.
The NJC had in November 2017 inaugurated the…
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