Justice Modupe-Osho Adebiyi of the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory FCT, has lashed out at Ghanaians for attempting to compromise her court in a 26-count criminal charges filed against them by the Nigeria Police.
The Ghanaians are Sam Jonah, Kojo Mensah and Victor Quianoo.
Police in Abuja had after its final investigation report and consideration of a forensic report, charged the Ghanaians to the High Court over allegations of falsifying ownership documents of high brow River Park Estate.
The police had alleged in the charge that the accused persons illegally increased share capital and used forged documents for companies like Jonah Capital Nigeria Limited and Houses for Africa Nigeria Limited, to attempt to claim ownership of River Park Estate.
However, while their arraignment was pending in court, the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Prince Lateef Fagbemi (SAN) directed that the criminal charges filed against the Ghanaian investors be put on hold and the case file be handed over to his office.
However, on January 2, the AGF officially announced the termination of the proceedings due to insufficient evidence for fraud and forgery allegations, claiming the Ghanaians had no case to answer.
In a ruling on the matter, Justice Modupe-Osho Adebiyi berated the accused persons for attempting to bribe her with money through the Court’s registrar.
The judge who was visibly angry said that she was not the type of person that can be bought to compromise cases before her, insisting that such acts would be punished if it ever occurred again.
Lawyers in court took turn to express their dismay at persons standing trial attempting to bribe a judge.
Meanwhile, following the notice of discountenance of trial of the charge filed by the office of the AGF, the Judge said she was minded to strike out the charge against the accused Ghanaians and accordingly struck out the charges.
