Nigeria: NJC Rejects NBS Report On Judiciary As Second Most Corrupt Institution

21 August 2017

Abuja — The National Judicial Council (NJC) yesterday dismissed a report by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crimes (UNODC) in conjunction with the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) ranking the judiciary as the second highest receiver of bribes in the country.

The NJC which described the report as untrue, baseless, unfounded and a figment of the imagination of the two agencies, wondered the parameters used by them in reaching their conclusions.

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