…wants him probed
Three staff of a new generation bank have written a petition to the Chief Judge and Chairman, Osun State Judicial Service Commission, alleging a judicial officer in the state, Magistrate A.A. Adeyeba, of abuse of powers and intimidation among others.
Adeyeba is the presiding judge of Magistrate Court 5, sitting in Osogbo, Osun State capital.
The Petitioners urged the Chief Judge of Osun State to direct a discreet investigation into the allegations they leveled against Magistrate Adeyeba for appropriate disciplinary actions against him.
In the petition written through their lawyer, A.M. Aliyu of Aliyu, Aliyu, Honour & Co, they alleged that the Magistrate granted an order for reversal of the sum of N11,812,750.25 from Jaiz Bank Account Number: 0011426749 belonging to Auwal Shehu Yakasai to Access Bank Account Number:1391322450 belonging to one Chuanxin Qiu, notwithstanding the order of interim injunction from the Kano State High Court restraining the Bank (Jaiz) from reversing the money. The order was granted September 30th, 2024.
The bankers, in the petition addressed to the Chief Judge of Osun State and dated March 2025, accused Magistrate Adeyeba of conspiring with Chuanxin Qiu through his lawyer Chief K E Ngwoke.
It was titled “Complaint of abuse of judicial powers, intimidation and disregard to judicial processes and interim order (S) of superior court of records and aiding acts likely to cause breach of public peace and and order.
The petitioners recalled that Mr Ayilara of Magistrate Court One, Osogbo, had ordered Jaiz Bank Plc and the petitioners to furnish account details of Auwal Shehu Yakasai, with Account Number: 0011426749 domiciled with the Kano Branch of the Bank and also placed a Post-No-Debit (PND) restriction on the said account of the customer pending an investigation on an alleged fraud case.
They alleged that while investigation was ongoing, Chuanxin Qiu, an applicant in the matter, through his lawyer Chief K E Ngwoke filed a fresh application before Magistrate Court 5 presided over by Adeyeba for reversal of the sum of N11,812,750.25 from Jaiz Bank Account Number: 0011426749 belonging to Auwal Shehu Yakasai to Access Bank Account Number: 1391322450 belonging to Chuanxin Qiu without any administrative transfer of the matter from Magistrate Court One to any other Magistrate Court.
The petitioners stated that Magistrate Adeyeba went ahead to grant the application on September 20th, 2024 and directed Jaiz Bank Plc to reverse the said money from Jaiz Bank Account Number: 0011426749 belonging to Auwal Shehu Yakasai to Access Bank Account Number: 1391322450 belonging to Chuanxin Qiu instead of him to reject the application for being an abuse of court process and premature following the ongoing investigation of a related criminal complaint.
Assuming that Magistrate Adeyeba has jurisdiction, instead of making the reversal order to the Agil Technology with UBA account where the alleged fraud took place, the Magistrate rather ordered that the money be transferred to an individual account with Access Bank
They alleged that Magistrate Adeyeba, with disregard to the existence and pendency of the interim order of the Kano State High Court, denied them audience in his proceedings of February 14th, 2025 when he granted an application for their arrest and remand warrant.
The bankers said while still reviewing the two conflicting orders, the decision of Magistrate Adeyeba to desperately grant the issuance of Forms 48 and 49 against them in a contempt proceedings, at the behest of Chief K E Ngwoke representing Chuanxin Qiu, depicted a calculated conspiracy, bias, sheer sentiment and partiality engrossed in abuse of judicial powers against them.
The petitioners added that Magistrate Adeyeba acted with impunity when he conspired with Chief K E Ngwoke lawyer representing Chuanxin Qiu with unidentified plain clothes persons, who invaded the Osogbo Branch of Jaiz Bank and disrupted activities in a bid to arrest them under a purported contempt proceedings that were at variance with their right to fair hearing.
They alleged that the Magistrate also disregarded the fact that the amount involved is beyond the financial jurisdiction of his court and that the entire transaction took place in Kano with none of the parties residing in Osun State
The bankers added that Magistrate Adeyeba totally disregarded the notice of appeal and stay of proceeding filed at the Registry of his court against his earlier ruling on the matter as well as stay of execution and order of interlocutory injunction filed at the High Court of Osun State in suit number HOS/M133/2025 between Jaiz Bank Plc and Chuanxin Qiu.
“As if that was not enough, there was an application from Chief K E Ngwoke to Magistrate Adeyeba to vary the Committal Order of the Magistrate to include all the staff of Jaiz Bank and the Magistrate is bent on hearing it notwithstanding that he is functus officio.
“Such weird exercise of judicial powers if not call to order will destroy the relative peace Osun State is enjoying especially with the recent crisis among Ifon, Ilobu and Erin Osun”, the petition partly read.
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