Judiciary now Victim of Corruption , says former CJ

Justice Ibrahim Auta, a former Chief Judge of the Federal High Court, says the judiciary, especially the judges have become victims of corruption allegation in the country. Auta made the assertion during the conferment of Award of Excellence on him by the Society Watch Media Ltd. (SWML), an NGO, on Wednesday in Abuja. He said that because judges were barred from speaking to the press, most of the corruption allegation leveled against them often appeared to be true. The former chief judge said that corruption perceptions about judges were becoming…