For the first time , a sitting Chief Justice of Nigeria, CJN, has been informed by the Code of Conduct Bureau, CCB, that he will be prosecuted over an alleged petition by one Dennis Aghanya, , Executive Secretary of the anti-corruption Research Data-based Initiative.

Aghanya, according to Ibrahim Alhassan, Spokes person of the CCB, had petitioned Onnoghen, the CJN, over alleged non declaration of his assets and operating domiciliary accounts. Acting on the petion which had accused the CJN of being the owner of sundry accounts primarily funded through deposits made by himself up to August 2016, which he maintains with Standard Chartered Bank Accounts at Wuse ,Zone 2, Abuja, that were declared by him, SCN:000015, noting that it had been in existence since 2011.

The petitioner was said to have further alleged that Onnoghen did not declare his assets immediately after taking office or complied with the Constitutional requirement for public servants to declare their assets every four years during their career.

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