focus7:
Some children of hate from SE will not like the news that Tinubu's trial was an error as they hold the belief that Tinubu is corrupt.

compoundcc:




DIRTY TINUBU, Money can't wipe clean the black dirty stain of many year of smoking marijuna (IGBoo)

teepain:
GEJ had tried his best and he is gone but one of his undoing is that he is a pacifist as he would rather cut deals and pacify people instead of making hard decisions.

The case of Tinubu is shameful to the extent that the only case that the FG through CCB could prefer against him was that of OPERATING INACTIVE FOREIGN ACCOUNTS. There was no case of illegally acquired asset, false declaration or anticipatory declaration of assets and yet the former President's men (who should know) alleged serious corruption against Tinubu. The question is why did their principal (GEJ) not act on those allegations?

Whenever a corrupt politician is prosecuted, Heavens and the masses rejoice because the kingdom of looters is decimated.

As long as the culprit committed the offence, he or she should be prosecuted regardless of witch hunting or selective prosecution claims.

Any party that finds its candidate in Aso Rock in the future should remember this and therefore prosecute the looters of our collective wealth.

Lastly, Nigerians shouldn't bother themselves about the political party, tribe or ethnicity of any looter under trial, the only thing that matters is that the prosecution must prove that the crimes were actually committed.


Copy Ngenekwenu, firefire, TonyeBarcanista, Anonimi, Modath

IsraeliAIRFORCE:



CCB should then appeal.

Nigerians should force Code of Conduct Bureau to appeal the judgment to a higher court that will inturn order for a retrial.

This is just as simple as ABC. Every Nigerian must be judged by the same rule of law

modath:



Chief, set aside personal feelings & familiarise yourself with the concept in law referred to as "double jeopardy"

Would clear you of some things, fresh evidence is the key here.

2n2k:


Code of Conduct BUREAU is not a court just an executive body. It is the Code of Conduct TRIBUNAL that is a court. The Bureau took the case to the Tribunal for judgement, so it is a prosecuting party.

prof12:


LET US NOT FORGET THAT TINUBU'S CASE WAS TRIED UNDER THE LAST CORRUPT PDP GOVERNMENT AND ONLY GOD KNOWS WHAT TRANSPIRED BETWEEN TINIBU AND JONATHAN'S ADMINISTRATION THEN.
THIS IS A NEW GOVERNMENT THAT PROMISED TO CLEAN NIGERIA OF CORRUPTION AND YOU WANT THEM TO COMMIT THE SAME COSTLY MISTAKE.
NOT TO FORGET IN THIS GOVERNMENT STEALING IS CORRUPTION

tosin2013:
This danladi umar guy!

I hope hes life is not in danger o. Cos the sarki we know is a very desperate man.

Very good judgement however. Cos a thief ran away, does not mean another thief should be let go.

Very good judgement. Saraki may the gods save you from this pit u enter.

Fire15:

All persons pummeling the CCT over the BAT verdict, are really missing the point. Have they taken time to look at the charges preffered against Tinubu? The government came up with foreign accounts that belong to his immediate family, wife and kids, and some account belonging to him, that were operated while he was holding public office.
The whole essence of BAT arraignment, was to embarrass him, bring him to odium and opprobrium, see him docked and have his picture splashed on the front page of Newspapers.
The case of Saraki, is not about having unoperated foreign accounts, but operating foreign accounts, and even diverting state monies into such accounts to buy properties abroad on one hand, and on the making false and anticipatory declarations of properties.
Saraki need not fear after all, he can always appeal the judgement of the CCT. Am certain, the mind bugling expositions is what, he wants to deprive us of.

HungerBAD:
President of the Nigerian Senate on Thursday, a day after he led the National Assembly to pass the 2016 Appropriation Act.

The Code of Conduct Tribunal spoilt the fun for Saraki who has been receiving commendations from his party chiefs over the passage of the budget as it refused the entreaties of the Senate President to quash his trial over the 13 count charges of false assets declaration preferred against him by the Federal Government.

Justice Danladi Umar, Chairman of Code of Conduct Tribunal had stopped the Senate President’s second attempt to stop his trial when it held that the charges preferred against the Senate President was valid and competent in law in his ruling on Saraki’s motion challenging the jurisdiction of the Tribunal to try him.

The judge noted that the Act establishing the CCT as well as the 1999 constitution, as amended, conferred the Tribunal with the requisite jurisdiction to hear and determine allegations bordering on breach of code of conduct by public officers.

On Saraki’s argument that the FG waited for over 13 years before instituting the charge against him, Justice Umar held that there is no time frame for the prosecution of a criminal offence.

In asking the Tribunal to free him of the charges, the Senate President had cited the case of Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the former governor of Lagos State who was arraigned before CCT in 2011, but was discharged after only two appearances in the Tribunal.

Kanu Agabi, the Senate President’s lawyer had argued that Tinubu was freed by the Tribunal then because FG failed to fulfil necessary condition precedents capable of conferring jurisdiction on it to hear the substantive charge.

According to Agabi, the tribunal had in the case against Tinubu, noted that the Code of Conduct Bureau, CCB, which recommended the prosecution, ought to have invited the defendant to clarify discrepancies in the assets he declared, before the charge was initiated and consequently discharge him.

Like Tinubu, Agabi said his client was also not invited to clarify the allegations against him.

“My lord he has not been invited up till now. That was the same reason you gave for allowing Tinubu to go home, on the ground that ten other governors were invited by the CCB to make clarifications on discrepancies in the assets they declared.

“But till now, the defendant here, who is the Senate President of this country has not been invited. It is our position that the law is not discriminatory”, Agabi submitted.

He also argued that the laws establishing CCB mandated it to summon anyone perceived to have falsely declared his assets to give explanations.

“The defendant was never afforded such opportunity, not even a chance to kneel down and apologise”, said Agabi who added that the charge was politically motivated and instituted in bad faith.

Failure of the Bureau to summon Saraki to give explanations, Agabi argued was fatal to the charge.

But in his ruling on Friday, Justice Umar said the former Lagos State Governor was discharged in error in 2011.

“The tribunal has since realised that the decision it made on the case between FRN vs Tinubu was in error and has clearly departed from it”.
“It is not out of place for the prosecution to charge the defendant now. The application to quash the charge is hereby refused. The tribunal hereby re-inforce its jurisdiction in line with the constitution an section 3(d) of the CCB &Tribunal Act.

“Accordingly, the prosecution is hereby ordered to produce its witnesses for the trial of the defendant to commence immediately,” Justice Umar held.

“Tinubu’s case was based on 1979 law and the Tribunal having realised its mistake more than three years ago upturned the decision and said they made a mistake, that it was an error and that it was given without considering the 1999 Constitution,” Rotimi Jacobs, the Prosecution Counsel said while giving further elucidation to the Tribunal’s ruling to journalists.

Jacobs who had argued along this line to oppose Agabi’s request that his client should be allowed to go home based on the decision of the court on former Lagos State governor added that The Tribunal had in two other cases decided in 2012 and 2014 overturned the decision.

“If it was the Chairman of the Tribunal that was in error, should we follow the error? He has corrected it in two other judgments,” Jacobs who also said the Federal Government is ready to pursue the case against the Senate President at any other court added


http://www.pmnewsnigeria.com/2016/03/24/cct-trial-why-saraki-cannot-be-allowed-to-go-like-tinubu-justice- umar/

udosoft:
from the comments i hv read so far, most of us admits that Tinubu is currupt but because he was tried in the regime of an ineffectual buffon ''as claimed'', he should go free, sighs.....

Understanding Nigerians is like understanding women,

let justice prevail...

focus7:
Some children of hate from SE will not like the news that Tinubu's trial was an error as they hold the belief that Tinubu is corrupt.

slyzy:


See how u are revealing ur ignorance in full glare of the public. How can court of conduct bureau appeal against it own verdict? chill out pls

orakao8:
MY BROTHER...IT DOESNT MATTER THE REGIME OR TIME...A THIEF IS A THIEF...WHAT IS GOOSE IS GOOD FOR THE GANDER....IF THEY CAN TRY SARAKI, THE SAME SHOLD BE DONE TO AMAECHI AND TINUBU

temitemi1:
If tinubu is a free man, bukola should also be a free man.

Deen77:


If I agree with you, why only Tinubu? Tinubu is a governor of Lagos state and many states are controlled by PDP, why only Tinubu while not all the past Governor's majority are from d PDP.

Tinubu and Jonathan who need to be jail, Tinubu work for Lagos that is why APC is still in Power or Jonathan that rule the country with nothing to show for all the crude oil sales.

Tinubu sin is supporting Buhari.

Faru1:
.. hold it all!
All I can say now is that we are not in the era of "stealing is not corruption "

dunkem21:




We can change the trial now that a new sheriif is in town ..


..Trying Saraki while Tinubu walks free is a sham to the CCB ..

nnachukz:
If there is anything like justice in this country then Tinubu should be picked up and properly tried, the CCT haven acknowledged and accepted that it erred in its judgement. Otherwise anything done to Saraki while Tinubu walks free will amount to injustice and will show the judge as one just reading out a judgement handed to him by APC leaders.

nnachukz:
If there is anything like justice in this country then Tinubu should be picked up and properly tried, the CCT haven acknowledged and accepted that it erred in its judgement. Otherwise anything done to Saraki while Tinubu walks free will amount to injustice and will show the judge as one just reading out a judgement handed to him by APC leaders.

nnachukz:
If there is anything like justice in this country then Tinubu should be picked up and properly tried, the CCT haven acknowledged and accepted that it erred in its judgement. Otherwise anything done to Saraki while Tinubu walks free will amount to injustice and will show the judge as one just reading out a judgement handed to him by APC leaders.

greggng:

Some of you don't understand the law. Tinubu was judged on 1979 constitution but saraki cannot be judged on 1979 constitution because of the amendments make there in as a result of judicial review. Today we ve waec result with picture on it. Can those who did theirs when picture was not considered demand for picture to be attached to theirs? Even though the certificate is equivalent? That doesnot take away the change factor. Saraki will not excape trial and he will be the first senate president to go to jail. I saw it in my dreams and my dreams always come to pass

nnachukz:
If there is anything like justice in this country then Tinubu should be picked up and properly tried, the CCT haven acknowledged and accepted that it erred in its judgement. Otherwise anything done to Saraki while Tinubu walks free will amount to injustice and will show the judge as one just reading out a judgement handed to him by APC leaders.

nnachukz:
If there is anything like justice in this country then Tinubu should be picked up and properly tried, the CCT haven acknowledged and accepted that it erred in its judgement. Otherwise anything done to Saraki while Tinubu walks free will amount to injustice and will show the judge as one just reading out a judgement handed to him by APC leaders.

greatiyk4u:



Tinubu was tried under weak presidents when it was business as usual...........now, this is what you can proudly call CHANGE.

naptu2:
Double jeopardy.

Section 36 (9) of the constitution.


(9) No person who shows that he has been tried by any court of competent jurisdiction or tribunal for a criminal offence and either convicted or acquitted shall again be tried for that offence or for a criminal offence having the same ingredients as that offence save upon the order of a superior court .