The Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Walter Onnoghen, continued his battle for survival yesterday, hinting at agriculture as the source of his wealth with a petition to the acting Inspector General of Police, Mr. Mohammed Adamu, over alleged threat to the lives of workers on his farm in Masaka, Nasarawa State.

Onnoghen was suspended a couple of weeks ago by President Muhammadu Buhari and has a February 13 date with the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT), where he is being arraigned for alleged asset declaration offences.

He has, however, asked the CCT Chairman, Mr. Danladi Umar, to stand down from the panel of three on the grounds of likelihood of bias.

In an apparent bid to force the CJN out of office, the federal government had acted speedily on a petition by a non-governmental organisation alleging that the apex court justice had failed to declare his assets fully, complaining that he failed to disclose some domiciliary accounts habouring huge forex.

Few days later, the media was awash with details of the said hidden accounts with insinuation that the hefty cash could be proceed of illicit transactions.

In a nationwide broadcast, the president complained that while he was being upbraided for unlawfully suspending the CJN, no one was talking about the funds found in Onnoghen’s account.

Analysts said yesterday that Onnoghen’s petition complaining about ‘herdsmen’ attack on his farm, might be his strategy of explaining the source of his wealth already being assailed by the federal government.
Under the 1999 Constitution as altered, public officers are allowed to engage in farming.

In the petition dated February 2 and filed February 4, his counsel, Mr. Ogwu Onoja, SAN, said his client, the CJN informed him that “some men who appeared to be herdsmen were at the farm yesterday afternoon and also later at night, inquiring about the owner of the farm and issued frightening threats to the farmers.

Onoja stated that the workers are now living in dreadful fear and have consequently stopped all farming activities.

According to Onoja, the farm, which belongs to the family of Onnoghen, is a large commercial venture that provides employment to a large number of people who live on the farm and tend to the commercial poultry, piggery, livestock as well as cash and food crops on the farm.

While the petitioner said the threat of the herders was being considered as an indication of imminent attack on the lives and property on the farm, he called on the IG and police to urgently move in and forestall any possible destruction of lives and property at the farm.

He said in part: “We implore you, in the discharge of your constitutional duty as the Chief Police Officer of the nation, to deploy your men to secure the farm to avoid a breakdown of law and order, the possible unleashing of mayhem on the workers, destruction of the farm, including the property thereon and the disruption of ongoing farming activities particularly in this season of harvest.

“We also call for a thorough, exhaustive and stringent investigation into this matter so as to unearth the identities of the persons behind this menace.
“We trust that you will use your good offices to quash this impending threat and help restore confidence of the people in the farm and its immediate environ.”


https://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2019/02/06/onnoghen-hints-at-agric-as-source-of-his-wealth/amp/


It's no longer AGRICODE, Forex Trading and Other Investments, it is now farming

Hmmm

See as a whole CJN of a nation dey lie?

roundman:
See as a whole CJN of a nation dey lie?

Am telling you.... Just see how he is disgracing himself

See as a whole CJN of a nation dey lie

Tinubu should tell Nigerians how he became so richer than Ghana and Sierra Leone put together

CJN lie lie bro

Wike and Ipob pigs will push this guy into his destruction, continue lying my brother, u go dey alright last last.


Pachukwudi, this guy is still an Ex-CJN o, u told us they will reinstate him last week,wat's happening now? abeg! don't fall my hand.





chest beater, oshi

By the time this man's trial will commence, the world will be shocked that he doesn't have anything near d amount of money or properties buhari has been releasing to the press thru thiefnuubu's thenation.
Unfortunately,the CJN is barred from speaking to the press in matters like this.

Like it or not Onnoghen will win this case in court , he is a lawyer , a very smart one at that ...and all he needs is to cook up a nice story , and balance his accounts well.... except the judge is biased, buhari's style of media trial , gives this guy's ample time to think....how many have been convicted so far
Before u start shouting CJN they lie , Buhari that ruled for 4 years and came out to say some whack unknown organization, headed by lazy Nigerian youths .... bought his expression of interest form of over 35 million ( trying to pretend he doesn't have such money) where una dey
Lawyers lie for a living , as long as the lie sounds reasonable...

lie another lie

So na d farming bring all d dollars, oh I forget, he export his farm produce that's where the dollars,euros,pounds come from.

Very Laughable!
Onnoghen is definitely the most corrupt and shameless CJN Nigeria has had.

Barefaced lies from a whole chief judge!

Just resign with the remaining integrity you have. Good luck has taught us a lesson already

Yes, His true colour is gradually revealing as an unrepentant criminal.

Why investing in Nasarawa and not his home town or his region.This man is a big fool...They need to teach him a lesson he will never forget.

Forex trader cum Farming consultant

The criminal got his tongue back.


Only people with criminal mindset will believe this criminal.

Nigeria judiciary is a criminals dens

This man is actually shameless, you have been caught just own up to your crime

This liar must think we were all born yesterday

NaijaRoyalty:
Tinubu should tell Nigerians how he became so richer than Ghana and Sierra Leone put together

I know Tinubu is ur tormentor, even if ur prik no gree stand ontop ur wife, it is still Tinubu. Tinubu is not the cause of ur frustration, get ur ass up and work, lazy youth.

Chisos, so he is no longer forex traders? No longer BDC?



Ayam not understanding

This guy is a pathological liar!

LYING BASTARD

This man is not a rookie thief like some of us thought. A hardened criminal thou art.

See how Onnoghen stylishly brought in herdsmen to his ordeal to curry sympathy from the people that already have sympathy for him the Igbos and PDP people.

Maybe he wants them to double their efforts in sympathy the one they've given is not enough, he wants them to be hitting the streets daily on protest, more of letter writing to US, EU, UN.

And more propaganda and cyber bullying.
Onnoghen leave herdsmen alone they never evaded your farm a drowning man looking for a straw to clutch.

How can a suspended CJN be running from pillar to post trying to avoid trials, i thought is only politicians that does this, this confirms that Onnoghen is a political judge of PDP wing if not no difference from what FFK, Olisa Metuh and PDP members in trials do in frustrating their trials going on.

If I get anything from all this lies the disgraced CJN is trying so hard to spin it is the fact that he and/or people close to him or fighting for him know a thing or two about the herdsmen activities. Let him answer this questions.

1. What does the FG or APC have to gain from sending herdsmen to his farm? They’d rather send EFCC.

2. How did the herdsmen know that the CJN owns the farm?

3. How come the herdsmen has never visited the farm since they started wrecking their mayhem but decided to visit now that the CJN is on trial?

4. How strategic it is, that the CJN (who claimed to have no other source of income in his declaration of asset) coincidentally and suddenly now have a farm in nasarawa(being terrorized by herdsmen) of all the 36states of the country.

PDP is pure evil and God that owns all the souls they’ve wasted shall disgrace them.



Side note: Does anyone notice that since Atiku became PDP presidential aspirant, Oyedepo and Apostle Suleman has suddenly gone quiet on their shout of APC Islamization agenda.

This is the funniest thing I have read this week. Why do I have a feeling that this innovative but ridiculous idea came from Dino Melaye, the grandmaster of imaginary persecutions. Hehehe. Just watch, an assassination attempt will be the next claim.

Corrupt NBA, SANs and charge and bail have been quiet for some time over this man.
South South govs where are u
Militants nko
PDP nko
Saraki and his Senate chickened out
NBA your two days failed boycott is over oh. What's your next action