Governor Babagana Umara Zulum has given a brand new Toyota Corolla to retired Justice Hadiza Ali-Jos. Justice Hadiza, who rejected the sum of $200,000 (about N300 million), had no car to herself after retirement.
It would be recalled that when the retired judge was serving as Chairman of an Election Petitions Tribunal, she rejected a bribe of the sum of $200,000. When the givers refused to take the money away and left, she paid the dollars to the government’s coffers and gave her judgment against them.
It was gathered that when the Chief Judge of Borno State, Justice Kashim Zannah mentioned to Governor Zulum that the retired judge had transportation issues, the governor was reported to have shouted: “intolerable and unacceptable.”
Governor Zulum reasoned that it was not fair for such an honest judge to serve with integrity and face such challenges in retirement.
The governor then promptly ordered the Chief Judge to procure the car which he did, delivering it to the retired judge at her home in Abuja yesterday, October 27.
