The proposed arraignment of a suspended Federal High Court, Justice Mohammed Yinusa, was on Wednesday stalled due to administrative hiccups at the court. Yinusa was billed to be arraigned before Justice Mojisola Dada of an Ikeja High Court sitting in Lagos. The arraignment, however, did not hold as it was not listed for hearing on Wednesday before Justice Dada. The registrars informed the parties that the case file had been returned to the administrative judge and advised the parties to follow up at the main court’s registry. Consequently, Justice Yinusa, who was in court with his lawyer, left. It was gathered that the case had first been assigned to Justice Oluwatoyin Ipaye of the same court before the case file was withdrawn and later transferred to Justice Dada. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission filed a five corruption charges against the judge. EFCC also accused the Yinusa of engaging in constant private and confidential communications with a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Mr. Rickey Tarfa, who was handling three lawsuits marked FHC/L/CS/714/2015, FHC/L/CS/715/2015 and FHC/L/CS/716/2015 before him. The embattled judge was also accused of collecting N1.5m from the SAN for the purpose of giving judgments favourable to the SAN’s law firm. In the charges, Justice Yinusa, who has been suspended by the National Judicial Council, was accused of attempting to pervert the course of justice, contrary to Section 97(3) of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, No. 11, 2011. Charged alongside Justice Yinusa was one Esther Agbo, who works in the law firm of Rickey Tarfa & Co. The EFCC claimed that Agbo on May 14, 2015 paid N1.5m into Justice Yinusa’s UBA account numbered 1005055617. The judge was also accused of receiving financial benefits in the sum of N750,000 from Mr Joseph Nwobike (SAN), between March and September 2015. The EFCC claimed that the judge received the money so that he could give decisions in favour of the SAN in his cases. The offence is said to be contrary to Section 64(1)(a) of the Criminal Law of Lagos State No 11, 2011]]>
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