Judges That Cannot Deliver 3 to 4 Judgments in a Year, Will Be Shown Their Way Out: (CJN), Justice Mariam Aloma-Mukhtar
The cleansing of our National judiciary by Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Mariam Aloma-Mukhtar continues as she on Friday continued the implementation of her anti-corruption crusade in the judiciary. Any judge that did not deliver minimum of four judgments in a year would be automatically booted out, she said. Speaking last Friday while receiving Performace Evaluation report on judges, she confirmed Nigerian Tribune’s exclusive report on the ban she placed on indiscriminate travels by judges, noting that apart from the outcome of petitions filed against them, the National Judicial Council would henceforth use its performance evaluation reports to weed out incompetent and indolent judges. The “Nigeria’s Judicial Performance Evaluation 2008 - 2011” was compiled in seven volumes by the Nigerian Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (NIALS). While receiving the report in her office, Aloma-Mukhtar said that it was incredulous to observe that some judges could not even deliv...