Supreme Court In Big Mess: Supreme Court's Secret Account Running Into Billions Uncovered By DSS.

This is to show how deep corruption have eaten into our system, that even our law makers and our judges who have the power to make the law and pass judgment are better criminals than those they convict.

The Department of State Service (DSS) has revealed that it has uncovered a secret account belonging to the Supreme Court. It says that its attention was drawn to the account which contains billions of naira after it was discovered that the account is not been operated with due process of the civil service and money inside the account is often withdrawn to fund foreign trips of some judges. Apex court staff and justices also withdraw funds from the account.

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Investigators are said to be suspicious that even the dollars seized from the homes of some of the judges under probe may have come from the account.

The DSS is now investigating how and why the secret account was opened.

“In line with the current investigation of some judges, the DSS has discovered a suspicious account in the Supreme Court. The modalities for the operation of the account allegedly against the extant financial regulations were being probed by the security agency.

“Preliminary investigation revealed that the suspicious account was used to cater for foreign trips of some judges, including a few ones who were arrested by the DSS.

“The remittances into the account were in billions of Naira. There is a strong suspicion by the DSS that the dollars seized from the residences of some of these judges were drawn from the suspicious account.

“Some principal officers have been interrogated by the secret service. The manner in which the account was operated was suspected to be outside the extant laws in the civil service.

“It is left to the civil servants to prove that the processes of opening the account and managing it were legal and transparent. Otherwise, they have a case to answer,” a source said.

However, the DSS said it has restricted the movements of registrar of the Supreme Court Ahmed Saleh and the director of finance Muhammed Abdulrahman Sharif and Rilwanu Lawal.