The suspended Chief Justice of
Nigeria, Justice Walter Onnoghen, on Friday accused the Code of Conduct
Tribunal (CCT) of not following its set Standard Operation Procedures in
instituting the case against him.
Onnoghen made the accusation
during his resumed trial in Abuja.
Onnoghen is being arraigned at
the CCT following a charge against him brought by the Code of Conduct Bureau in
January.
The CCB accused Onnoghen of
failing to declare his assets from June 2005, after he became a Justice of the
Supreme Court till December 2016, two months after the Federal Government
raided the homes of several judges, including those of the Supreme Court in
October 2018.
According to the six-count charge
brought against him, Onnoghen is also accused of false declaration of his
assets, following his alleged failure to include some domiciliary accounts
managed by the Standard Chartered Bank.
The accounts, created in 2011 and
used for the transfer of foreign currencies, were omitted in one of two forms
filled on December 14, 2016, by Onnoghen.
According to section 3(d) of the
CCB act, the Bureau is empowered to receive complaints about cases of
non-compliance with or breach of the act.
The section also empowers the CCB
to refer such non-compliance to the CCT where the public officers accused of
the alleged breach, will be tried according to the provisions of the act.
NAN reports that the prosecution
team led by Aliu Umar, presented three witnesses before closing its case on
March 21.
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