The National Judicial Council (NJC) has recommended to President Goodluck Jonathan, the compulsory retirement of Justices Gladys Olotu of the Federal High Court, Abuja and Ufot Inyang of the Abuja High Court over “gross misconduct.”

The NJC directed their immediate suspension from office, pursuant to its disciplinary powers under the Constitution.

The council also issued warning letters to three others, who had been accused of low performance.

The three include the former Acting President of the Court of Appeal, Justice Dalhatu Adamu, who was made Acting President when the now retired Justice Isa Ayo Salami was suspended by President Jonathan.

Others are – Justice A. A. Adeleye of the Ekiti State High Court and Justice D. O. Amaechina of the Anambra State High Court.

NJC, in a statement issued on Thursday by its Acting Director, Information, Soji Oye, said its decisions were taken after the members’ meeting on February 26 under the Chairmanship of the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Aloma Mariam Mukhtar.

It said the decision to retire Justice Olotu was informed by its findings on the allegations contained in the petitions written against her. The findings include:

•That she “failed to deliver Judgment only to deliver same in Suit No. FHC/UY/250/2003, 18 months after the final address by all the counsel in the suit, contrary to the constitutional provisions those judgments should be delivered within a period of 90 days.

•That she “admitted before the Fact Finding Committee of the Council that investigated the allegations that she forgot she had a pending ruling to deliver in an application for joinder.

•That she “entertained a post judgment matter in suit No. FHC/UY/CS/250/2003 in Port Harcourt after delivering judgment, which made her functus officio;” and

•That in another case: Suit No. FHC/ABJ/CS/505/2012, “Hon. Justice Olotu failed to deliver judgment twice.”

On his part, Justice Inyang was axed sequel to the findings of the NJC on allegations leveled against him by some petitioners.

He was found to have “included in his judgment, references to the Garnishee Proceedings, which came after the judgment, had been delivered on December, 20, 2011.