Anti-corruption and elections / EFCC

Gombe Court Jails Magistrate for Bribery

Justice H.H. Kereng of the Gombe High Court sitting in Gombe, Gombe State has convicted and sentenced Mohammad Suleiman Kumo , a magistrate to two years and six months imprisonment for bribery. Kumo was initially arraigned on December 3, 2025 on three -count charges of bribery by the Gombe Zonal Directorate of the EFCC. However, on December 30, 2025 , the defendant, through his counsel, Adamu Bawa, filed a preliminary objection challenging the jurisdiction of the court to try him as he was “a judicial officer who ought be taken to the Judicial Service Commission ( JSC) for any wrong doing if s…