Corruption: FG drags another indicted Judge, wife to court

The Federal Government on Monday formally filed a 15-count criminal charge against a serving Judge of the Federal High Court, Justice Adeniyi Francis Adetokunbo Ademola, and his wife, who is the Head of Service, Lagos State, Olabowale Toluwatope Ademola.
The charge was filed at the registry of an Abuja High Court.
It was signed by Hajara Yusuf, a Principal State Counsel.
According to the charge, the defendants allegedly received N30 million from Messrs Joe Odey Agi Associates between March 11 and 26, 2015 and another N40 million between February 20 and 21, 2014.
The offence, according to the charge sheet, runs contrary to Section 8 of the Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission Act , 2011 and Section 115 of the Penal Code Law.
Justice Ademola was alleged to have received N30 million from Messrs Joe Agi Associates, with his wife also receiving the same amount from the same company.
According to the prosecution, Justice Ademola on May 6, 2013 received $520,000 from Messrs Johnson & Johnson Solicitors and another N6 million between February 25 and April 16, 2015 from Messrs Johnson & Johnson Solicitors.
Justice Ademola was also alleged to have accepted N55,650,000 from Messrs G.T. J. Ademola & Co between February 5 and June 23, 2016.
It was further alleged that Justice Ademola on February 20, 2014 accepted N40 million from Vertice Solutions Limited as well as accepting another N47.6 million from Acardian Energy Services Limited.
The prosecution further alleged that Justice Ademola on February 20, 2014 accepted N34 million from Omotayo Babafemi Aliyu and N4.7 million from Lawan Sulaiman between February 21 and November 7, 2014.
Justice Adeniyi Ademola was one of the serving Judges who was arrested on October 8, 2016 by operatives of the Department of State Services.
No date has been fixed for trial as the case is yet to be assigned to a Judge.