The Chief Justice of Nigeria
(CJN), Walter Onnoghen, has revealed plans to create special courts solely for
the purpose of hearing and speedily determining corruption and financial crime
cases.
Onnoghen broke the news, while
speaking at the opening of the 2017/2018 Legal Year and the swearing-in of 29
members of the Nigerian Bar Association conferred with the rank of Senior
Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) in Abuja.
According to the CJN, all heads
of courts have been directed to compile and forward to the National Judicial
Council (NJC), comprehensive lists of all corruption and financial crime cases
being handled by their various courts.
“Where such cases come on appeal,
to either the Court of Appeal or the Supreme Court, special dates on each week
shall be fixed solely for hearing and determining such appeals.
“In order for the NJC to monitor
and effectively enforce the foregoing policy, an anti-corruption cases trial
monitoring committee will be constituted at the next council meeting.
“This committee would be saddled
with, among other things, the responsibility of ensuring that both trial and
appellate courts handling corruption and financial crime cases key into and
abide by our renewed efforts at ridding our country of the canker-worm,”
Onnoghen stated.
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