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It’s Time For Integrity-challenged Danladi Umar To Withdraw From Saraki’s Trial by babanett: 12:53pm On May 07, 2016
IT’S TIME FOR INTEGRITY-CHALLENGED DANLADI UMAR TO WITHDRAW FROM SARAKI’S TRIAL

Source: Ynaija,

By Agency Reporter

Saturday May 7, 2016

 

It wouldn’t be far fetched to assert that the Nigerian judiciary has suffered an integrity crisis with the way the trial of Senate President BUKOLA SARAKI at the Code of Conduct Tribunal, has been handled thus far.

Repeated calls have been made for the chairman of the tribunal, Danladi Umar, to embrace some modicum of honor no matter how little, and excuse himself from the ongoing trial.

The Newspaper Vendors Association of Abuja, echoing those calls, have also asked Danladi Umar to withdraw from the SARAKI trial, owing to the fact that he has a N10 million bribery case hanging over his head.

The association, through its chairman and secretary, Samuel Jimoh and Ubangha Ubangha told the CCT chairman to “see himself less worthy to chair the panel trying SARAKI” as the administrative bail granted him on the bribery scandal does not absolve him.

Umar is accused of demanding for N10 million bribe from a defendant to help him squash his case in 2013, an accusation which led to a not-so-pleasant recommendation from the then Attorney-General of the Federation for his removal from the CCT.

Danladi Umar, who escaped the fall of the hammer because of the transition from the Peoples Democratic Party government to that of the All Progressives Congress, now appears – to many – to be a tool in the hand of some stakeholders in the new government.

While it is easy to believe that SARAKI’S trial at the CCT is persecution for being a political rebel, the inconsistent and far from respectable way with which Danladi Umar has handled the trial has given little room for doubt.

Danladi is presiding over a case being prosecuted by the EFCC while he has an open file with the same anti-graft agency- how on earth will there not be a clash of interest in his dispelling of justice?

Any right thinking man of integrity – or even commonsense – would have handed over the baton of the tribunal to someone else to carry out justice in a free and fair manner but not his Lordship, Danladi Umar.

More baffling is the quack letter of absolution hastily released by EFCC just to keep Danladi on the bench and in charge of the trial- really?

The Abuja vendors and many Nigerians have lost faith in Danladi’s integrity and his will to dispense justice rightly in this trial and as such, want him off the case.

From the way Danladi Umar has rigidly installed himself as the alpha and omega of SARAKI’S trial, it is doubtful that he will take a cue from the demand of the vendors to embrace the path of respectability and cease to be a tool for the punishment of erring party members.
Re: It’s Time For Integrity-challenged Danladi Umar To Withdraw From Saraki’s Trial by Nobody: 1:05pm On May 07, 2016
How about the integrity-challenged Saraki to withdraw from the Senate?

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Re: It’s Time For Integrity-challenged Danladi Umar To Withdraw From Saraki’s Trial by chriskosherbal(m): 1:54pm On May 07, 2016
Hmmmmmm

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