The Federal Government has foreclosed the return of all the seven judges to the bench.
The government believes the judges cannot be in the dock and be adjudicating at the same time.
A sourced said instead, the government had asked the NJC to suspend them, pending the conclusion of their trial.
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Now, hear what PDP Publicity Secretary, Barr. Ini Ememobong had said on Monday in an interview.
"The judges have a joint criminal and civil jurisdiction. So he sits over criminal and civil matters. A judge cannot be tried but a former judge can be tried. When he assumes the office of a judge, and he breaches his oath of office, there is a self-purging process.
When you have a petition (to the NJC) against a judge, it would be handled in the fastest possible time. Within six months that petition against the judge will be solved and the judge will be recommended for removal or to pay a fine or for subsequent prosecution.
Immediately he is stripped of the judicial apparel, you can now try him. Now, what you are doing is that while he is still under his oath of office as a judge, you now arrest him and put him in detention. When you release him (because when you take him to court he will be released unconditionally) he now goes back to court to sit as a judge but yesterday he was in your prison as a detainee.
Every day he will have cause to sit over cases pertaining to SSS, police and the rest. If you have a case against the SSS and this judge was arrested and detained by SSS and the following morning he sits in court, there is a likelihood that you will think this judge will not give you justice because he is afraid of SSS. There is also a likelihood that the SSS will think that they cannot get justice from the judge because they had detained him.
That is why you cannot try a judge. It is common sense. You cannot try a sitting judge, he must be derobed of that judicial apparel so that he becomes a normal citizen again. A judge is not a normal citizen anywhere in the world."
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