The National Judicial Council (NJC) has recommended a judge of the Osun State High Court, S. O. Falola, for sacking.
The NJC found Mr Falola culpable of granting an order garnishee absolute for enforcement of a court judgement “in a questionable and strange manner”.
NJC said the Osun State judge erred by entertaining proceedings for enforcement of a judgement purportedly from a Kwara State court “when there was no evidence of a judgement of the Kwara State High Court before him, neither was there a Certificate of Registration of same in Osun State to confer jurisdiction on him.”
Mr Falola was also found wanting for conspiring with some lawyers and court officials to execute a garnishee order without appropriate recourse to the law.
In a statement released on Thursday by Soji Oye, NJC’s director of information, announcing Mr Falola’s removal from the bench, the council described his conduct as “unbecoming of the standard expected of a Judicial Officer.”
Consequently, the NJC recommended Mr Falola’s sacking to Governor Ademola Adeleke of Osun State.
