Arrested judge pulls out of case involving DSS

Adeniyi Ademola, one of the judges arrested by the Department of State Service (DSS), has withdrawn from a case involving the secret police.

At the mentioning of the case against one Haruna Abbas and two others, Ademola said it would unfair for him to continue with it.

He announced that he would return the case file to Ibrahim Auta, chief judge of the federal high court, for reassignment.

“The matter was here last on June 13, and it involves the DSS; I don’t want to handle any of its matters anymore,” he said.

“In the interest of fair hearing, I think I will move the file to another court because it will not be fair to me and to DSS.

“So, I will return the file to the chief judge to reassign.

“The case file is hereby returned to the chief judge for reassignment to another judge on personal grounds”.

However, Abass, one of the accused, prayed the judge not to withdraw from the case.

He said he and his co-accused would prefer to be tried by Ademola.

This is not the first time that Ademola would back out from a case involving DSS. On October, 18 he withdrew from a case brought against Sambo Dasuki, a former national security adviser, by the DSS.