Wike Stopped Us From arresting Corrupt Rivers Judge – DSS

 

“The team restrained itself in the face of unbridled provocative activities by those brought in by the governor. Unfortunately, the judge and the governor also engaged the tacit support of a sister security agency.

“The Service surveillance team noticed that upon frustrating the operation, the judge with the active support of the governor craftily moved the money to an unknown location which the Service is currently making effort to unravel.”


Meanwhile, he said large amount including foreign/local currencies had been recovered.

He gave the summaries of these to include:
N93,558,000.00, $530,087, £25,970 and €5,680 (euro).

He said other foreign currencies were also recovered, but didn’t give details.

Garba said the currencies were recovered from just three of the judges. He refused to give their names and the total number of judges involved.

The cash, he added, were different from other banking documents, including real estate documents which he said were also recovered.

He said preparations were ongoing to arraign the suspects in a competent court of jurisdiction in line with the laws of the nation.

He said the Service had never invited Justice Walter Nkanu Onnoghen for investigation as being speculated in some quarters.

Garba announced that the current operation will be sustained and followed “till sanity and sanctity were restored to the esteemed third arm of government and public confidence is regained.”