'Daily Independent' Thursday March 4 2004 Page B3
As Sotuminu bows out…
One lawyer Mama, as the CJ is jocularly called, may not forget too soon is Barrister Adesina Ogunlana, publisher of “The Squib” magazine, a critical judicial activities weekly. Adesina who is something of a gadfly of the Judiciary had consistently used the magazine to attack Justice Sotuminu’s tenure, to the extent that she had to issue an order banning the sale of “The Squib” in the court premises.
Recently one other issue became a sore point for the CJ: the reported misappropriation, by the office of the CJ, of the 264 million naira NJC grant to judges in Lagos State. Almost all the serving judges in the state had taken on the outgoing CJ, on the whereabouts of the money, being the sum total of monthly grant approved for judges by NJC, since January 2002
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