•Muhammad Dattijo
The official quarters of a retired Supreme Court Justice, Muhammad Dattijo, were burgled during the Christmas holidays.
The quarters for Supreme Court justices are in Maitama in Abuja.
Sources privy to the incident said that the home was stripped bare as the burglars “took everything from the house,” reports The Nation.
“The burglary took place at the quarters for Supreme Court justices in Maitama. It occurred over the Christmas holidays and Dattijo was travelling out of the country at the time,” one of the sources said.
Dattijo, who retired from the Supreme Court on October 27, 2023, knocked his colleagues on his way out.
He described the apex court as rotten and characterised by filth.
He lamented that the apex court had been pervaded by bribery and perversion of justice, adding that it was dangerous for two out of the six geopolitical zones of the country to be excluded from the bench of the Supreme Court hearing appeals on the presidential election.
Lamenting that the appointments of judicial officers had been political, selfish and sectional interests, he said, “It is asserted that the process of appointment to judicial positions is deliberately conducted to give undue advantage to the children, spouses and mistresses of serving and retired judges and managers of judicial offices.
“At the Court of Appeal, it is asserted, presiding justices are now being appointed out of turn. And there is the further issue of the unpredictable nature of recent decisions of the courts as well.”
All efforts to get reactions to the report from the police were futile as the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Police Public Relations Officer, did not pick her calls or respond to text messages.
