Crime & SecurityNewsUPDATE: Identity Of Man Shot Dead In Enugu Revealed-Justice Stanley Nnaji

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The spate of insecurity in Enugu and Nigeria at large has become a source of huge concern as its impact on development cannot be overlooked.

Several cases of armed men either carting away millions of naira from individuals or their lives snuffed out in a split second as the case of late Justice Stanley Nnaji who was shot dead in Enugu on Sunday, 30th of May 2021 at about 1700hrs at the traffic light leading to Ebeano tunnel, beside Enugu Diagnostic Center in Enugu State.

A short video clip of the last minutes of Justice Stanley before his death captured three men on hood who dragged him down the SUV, shot him and drove away with his car.

Justice Stanley Nnaji was a former Chief Judge at the Federal High Court in Enugu; a native of Mbu in Isi-Uzo Local Government Area of Enugu State.

Justice Nnaji served as a Chief Judge in Enugu High Court till his dismissal in 2007; he was removed as Chief Judge after Nnoruka Udechukwu, the State Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice wrote a petition against him to the Nigerian Judiciary Council, NJC.

“On the 20th December 2006, at an emergency meeting held at Abuja, the National Judicial Council, acting with powers vested on it by Paragraph 21(d) of the Third Schedule to the 1999 Constitution suspended the Chief Judges of Anambra, Plateau and Ekiti states for the partisan roles played in the impeachment of their respective states,” the Cat-Dailytrust writes.

“Stanley Nnaji was one of the judicial officers who fell victims to the political crisis in Anambra State. Justice Nnaji, then a judge of Enugu State High Court, was suspended in March 2004 for wrongly assuming jurisdiction on a matter outside his state”

“He ordered Tafa Balogun, then inspector-general of police, to remove Chris Ngige, who was then the governor of Anambra State”.

This did not sit well with Nnoruka Udechukwu, the state attorney-general and commissioner for justice, who petitioned the NJC, complaining that the ruling was in bad faith and against the code of conduct of judicial officers.

The Federal Government, after approving the verdict of the Council on the higher officers in February 2004, sent their case files to the Independent Corrupt Practices and other Related Offences Commission, ICPC, for trial.

The National Judicial Council is a body established under section 153(1) of the 1999 Constitution with powers relating to appointments and exercise of disciplinary control over Judicial Officers specified in paragraph 21 of Part I of the Third Schedule of the Constitution.

The Council also has the power to collect, control, and disburses all monies, capital and recurrent, for the judiciary and to deal with all matters relating to policy and administration.

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