By Nurudeen Yisa, Lokoja
The Chief Judge of Kogi State, Nasir Ajanah is dead, reports The Gazelle News.com.
The Chief Judge died on Sunday, 28 June, 2020 at the Isolation Centre, Gwagwalada in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) where he was being treated for coronavirus infection.
The Gazelle News.com reports further that the Chief Judge’s death came less than two weeks after the death of an aide to the state Governor who also died in an Abuja hospital.
A week before, the President of the state Customary Court of Appeal, Ibrahim Shaibu Atadoga had died in the state capital.
The Gazelle News.com can report that although the Kogi State Government has consistently insisted that there is no cases of coronavirus in the state, the National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has confirmed some Covid-19 cases in the state one of which was the case involving the deceased Chief Judge.
The Kogi State has always accused the NCDC of falsifying COVID-19 cases in the state.
Ajanah was born in 1956 to the family of MJ Fari Ajanah in Okene local government area.
He studied law at the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, and was called to the Nigerian bar as a barrister and solicitor of the supreme court.
Ajanah later set up his private firm, Nasiru Ajanah & Co in Okene, where he practised law between 1985 and 1989.
He served in various capacities such as chairman, Kabba disturbance tribunal, Kogi, (1994); chairman, election petitions tribunal in Adamawa state (1998); member of governing council of Nigerian Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (1999 and 2006) and chairman, panel on Murtala Mohammed international airport fire incident (2000).
Ajanah, whose remains will be buried in Abuja on Sunday, served as chairman, election petitions tribunal in Akwa Ibom state (2007) and chairman, election tribunal petitions in Rivers state (2008).