The Adamawa state Judiciary Chief Judge (CJ), Hon. Justice Nathan Musa has removed the presiding judge of Lunguda Area Court sitting in Guyuk Local Government, Hon. Jemison Fawe over what he described as gross incompetence.
Nathan who is the Chairman Jail Delivery committee removed the judge when his committee stormed Guyuk correctional center in continuation of prison decongestion on Thursday and ordered him to report at the headquarters with immediate effect.
Hon. Fawe has been shown way out for convicting and sentencing a man to 3 years in prison without a fair hearing and the option of a fine.
The embattled judge was said to have convicted the man and sentenced him to 3 years in prison when the convict was arraigned before his Honourable court over the allegation of exchanging words with his mother.
The convict, who was among the inmates serving their separate jail terms at the correctional center, was arrested and arraigned before the court by the police over a misunderstanding between him and his mother as reported to the police by his elder brother.
When he was brought before the court by the police who could not tender any statement, the convict was there and then sentenced to 3 years in prison without hearing a word from him as to what transpired between him and his mother.
It was gathered that when the police finished narrating what the elder brother of the convict had told them, the judge convicted the defendant and sentenced him to 3 years in prison without an option of a fine.
It was learned that the convict, who was once a staff of union bank, lost his job as a result of which he decided to return to Guyuk. While in Guyuk, he had a fracture in an accident and was abandoned by those around him and became frustrated.
The convict alongside 4 other inmates was discharged by the committee out of 21 inmates with a warning to be of good behavior in the society.
