No fewer than twenty-five staff of the Niger State Judiciary have been sacked by the Judicial Service Commission, NJSC, over alleged certificate forgery.
Confirming the sack, the Secretary of the commission, Abdulraman Ahmed Garafini in Minna, said the twenty-five staff were dismissed after the commission considered their case based on the findings of the state’s staff verification committee at the conclusion of it’s assignment in the state
According to him, the Engr Ibrahim Panti committee on staff verification set up by Niger State governor Abubakar Sani Bello in 2021 discovered that the certificates of the sacked judicial personnel were forged and it recommended their dismissal from the service.
Similarly, a Shariah Court Judge and his Court Registrar were said to have been dismissed for allegedly diverting money from sales of inheritance estates to the tune of N400m belonging to a popular family in the state.