Kano Judiciary retires a Judge, sanctions others for corruption, sharp practices
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The Kano State Judicial Service Commission has retired a Shari’a Court Judge, Hon. Alkali Aliyu Muhammad over corrupt practice.
This is contained in a statement issued by the spokesperson for the judicial, Malam Jibo Ibrahim.
Ibrahim said the disciplinary measures were approved at the commission’s 90th meeting held on 3 July 2026 and chaired by the Chief Judge of Kano State, Justice Dije Aboki.
He said that Muhammad, the Presiding Judge of the Shari’a Court, Babeji, was compulsorily retired after the Judiciary Public Complaints Committee found him culpable of bribery and corruption in a civil suit.
Ibrahim said the commission also directed him to refund N250,000, said to have been received as gratification.
He said that in the same case, Ibrahim Ahmad, a court clerk at the Shari’a Court, Babeji, was suspended without pay for four months after admitting to receiving part of the bribe.
Ibrahim said that the commission also approved the compulsory retirement of Muzambilu Ado, Acting Director of Information and Statistics at the Shari’a Court of Appeal, over alleged irregularities in his academic credentials, including the alteration of academic records and irregular admission into the Nigerian Law School without the commission’s approval.
He said that the commission had also approved the demotion of a Sharia Court judge for negligence, and ordered investigations into a police inspector and two court officials over alleged misconduct.
Ibrahim said the commission had also sanctioned Hon. Alkali Usman Haruna, Presiding Judge of the Upper Shari’a Court, Goron Dutse, who was demoted by one grade level for negligence after allowing proceeds from the sale of estate property to be paid into the personal account of a court official, thereby exposing litigants’ funds to possible misappropriation.
The commission also ratified his earlier one-year recall from judicial duties and issued him a strong warning, he said.
Kano Judiciary retires a Judge, sanctions others for corruption, sharp practices
