The National Judicial Council (NJC) has appointed a retired Justice of the Supreme Court, Justice Suleiman Galadima, as the new Chairman of the Corruption and Financial Crime Cases Trial Monitoring Committee (COTRIMCO).
Galadima replaces Justice Ayo Salami (retired) who rejected the appointment as chairman of the committee after initially accepting to serve.
Galadima’s appointment was contained in a statement by Soji Oye, Director of Information, NJC, on Tuesday.
The NJC is under the chairmanship of the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Walter Nkanu Onnoghen.
The statement indicated that the committee would be inaugurated today.
The CJN, in response to the concern expressed by members of the public on the sluggishness with which corruption cases were being heard and disposed of by courts, and the need to fast-track the administration of criminal justice, directed the Heads of Court to set up Special Courts to speedily hear and determine corruption and financial crime cases and forward the comprehensive list to the council.
Consequently, the NJC, at its 82nd meeting of September 27, 2017, approved the constitution of the committee.
The committee was saddled with the responsibility of monitoring and regularly evaluating the progress and activities of courts designated to try corruption and financial/economic crime cases.
The committee was expected to advise on practice directions for approval by the Chief Justice of Nigeria to be applicable in all such courts across the country, with a view to eliminating procedural and administrative bottlenecks militating against speedy disposal of such cases.
Among other terms of reference, the committee was to advise on the training, re-training and other refresher programmes for judges and staff of the designated courts aimed at enhancing their capacities to function effectively.
Justice Galadima was born October, 1946, in Nasarawa State.
He attended Government College, Keffi, where he obtained the West Africa School Certificate in 1965 before he proceeded to Ahmadu Bello University where he obtained a bachelor’s degree in Law in 1977 and was called to the Bar after he graduated from the Nigerian Law School in 1978.
He later received a master’s degree in Law from the University of Jos in 1985.
He joined the Anambra State Judiciary as Magistrate on July 1988 and, in 1990, he was appointed Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice, Plateau State.
On May 1991, he became a High Court Judge in Plateau State.
At the creation of Nasarawa State in 1996, he was appointed pioneer Chief Judge of the new state.
On December 9, 1998, he was appointed to the Court of Appeal and, on August 2010, he was appointed to the Supreme Court of Nigeria.
He retired on October 10, 2016, at the mandatory retirement age of 70 years.
Galadima is famous for his leading judgment in Shina Oketaolegun Vs. State, SC. 334A/2012, wherein he held that the Court of Appeal correctly reviewed the evidence led by both the prosecution and the defence in which he agreed that the evidence of one credible witness can justify a conviction.
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Source: Daily Independent
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