The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission is set to charge suspended Federal High Court judge, Justice Mohammed Yunusa for alleged misconduct.

Yunusa got into EFCC watch when the commission was investigating a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Mr. Rickey Tarfa, who is on trial for allegedly offering gratification to a public official.

The EFCC stated that from its investigations, Tarfa’s law firm, Rickey Tarfa & Co., with Access Bank account number 0000964760, paid N225,000 into Justice Yunusa’s bank account.

However, Tarfa denied the allegation.

He stated in an affidavit he filed before a Federal High Court in Lagos, that the money was meant for funeral rites of Justice Yunusa’s father-in-law, Audi Damasa and was contributed by friends.

The NJC also received two petitions against the judge in respect to some other matters.

The judge also granted an interlocutory injunction stopping the EFCC from investigating and arresting Senator Stella Oduah, a former Minister of Aviation, who was accused of embezzlement of public funds and acts of fraud in contracts.

This decision reportedly got Yunusa sanctioned.

In a petition by Civil Society Network Against Corruption, the group accused the judge of consistent refusal to abide by judicial precedents laid down by the supreme court in granting orders and injunctions against the EFCC.

A detective, who did not want his name in print said, “We are already prosecuting Tarfa for bribing a judge. It therefore follows that the judge must be prosecuted for allegedly receiving a bribe.

“Now that the judge has been retired, we will have the freedom to even carry out further investigations and look into some of the cases that he handled. We might even reopen some of the cases that he threw out.

“It will also boost our case against Tarfa, which is currently in court. This is a welcome development and a victory for the anti-graft war.”