I have read so many posts/comments on the CJN Saga. I am shocked by the input of many and thus felt compelled to chip in this note on the matter.

What is wrong with Nigerians that almost none is asking the one billion dollar question - what is about $3.0m doing in a CJN domiciliary account that he FORGOT to declare?

We are talking of CJN who suppose to know more about laws of Nigeria than any other Nigerian at this point in time. An Engineer like me even know that "ignorance is a not a defence in a court of Law", TALKLESS OF THE CHEIF JUSTICE OF NIGERIA. Any Lawyer anywhere in the world would have been taught that in LAW-101 class and that should have stuck to his brain just like Newtons 1st Law of motion is stuck in the brain of any Engineer be him/her Electrical, Civil, Mechanical, etc in any part of the world.

Can you image how bad we have gone as a Nation when the CJN can publicly come out as say "he forgot to declare an account holding about $3.0m". It is an insult on our collective intelligence as a Nation. If it is China, he will be facing death sentence as we speak or he would have committed suicide. If it is the Western world, he would have resigned by now.

I don't know how we will move forward as nation when some people can even think of defending such CJN after the public admittance. Yet we will be expecting government to transform our fortunes overnight while defending those that are stealing our commonwealth.

Our major problem is we "tribalize" and "politicize" every issue without addressing the core of matter. We have left the core matter that the CJN (The Chief Lawman of Nigeria) flouted the law of the land and admitted so publicly and now turned the matter to a case of PMB is persecuting "our son"/"a political opponent"

Let the truth be said, the supposed CJN is not the "Chief Justice of Nigeria" but a "Thief of Justice of Nigeria". Let him go and defend his "forgetfulness" in court of law with the 140 SANs (Senior "Arufins" of Nigeria). Arufin in Yoruba means Law flouter/Law Dis-respecter. He needs to tell us how he made $3.0m as the CJN.

Bunch of thieves and thief defenders.

I already knew this CJN issue wouldnt go anywhere. The issue had taken a whole new level. Nobody is asking the right questions... Thank you for this thread

But then, what do you expect when a president sees the video of a sitting governor collecting bribe, and still calls him responsible?

What do you expect when a man accused of embezzlement is championing the campaign of a president with integrity?

He who comes to equity must come with clean hands...

Nigeria is fvvked bros

The question should be

what is wrong with you

It pains me to bone marrow that Nigeria is not ready to move forward. The question is such an amount of money so small that he forgot.
Even the youths that are supposedly to take this up as an opportunity to cause a revolution are backing such a monumental disgrace.
It’s unfortunate this is the Nigeria we have...no wonder a friend said recently Nigeria cannot change.

The question should be why months to Election.. Police IG changed, SSS boss changed, family appointed into INEC top, Boko haram almost finished our Army in Borno yet chief of defence staff not even queried...

And Now the only Southerner in the highest rank of Government want to be disgracedlike that... I say No.. To hell with anti-corruption and integrity.

If you don't know there is a cancer called tribalism greater than any form of corruption in this country then you must be a learner or a very foolish Southerner.

@first, your thread will not make FP because I do not know what this forum is turning into.
Second, reactions to your point will be derailed because I do not know the generation we are breeding.
We are no longer objective on National issues and we want to build a Nation. We compare frivolously as a means to justify abnormalities.
We hardly think because our sense of reasoning has been beclouded.
It is a pity.

he forgot to declare it because there was no money in the account as at the time.

which means it was a liability, an account with zero naira is not an asset. in fact he finally declared it in 2016 before becoming the CJN.

His declaration in 2016 should cover the old one.

OP please show me the thread you opened during the gandujegate.If there is none then STFU!!!secondly i don't know where you got your figure of $3m from.

Finally the charge is for alleged failure to update assets in 2009.Everything was declared in his last update in 2016

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BabaAduras:
I have read so many posts/comments on the CJN Saga. I am shocked by the input of many and thus felt compelled to chip in this note on the matter.

What is wrong with Nigerians that almost none is asking the one billion dollar question - what is about $3.0m doing in a CJN domiciliary account that he FORGOT to declare?

We are talking of CJN who suppose to know more about laws of Nigeria than any other Nigerian at this point in time. An Engineer like me even know that "ignorance is a not a defence in a court of Law", TALKLESS OF THE CHEIF JUSTICE OF NIGERIA. Any Lawyer anywhere in the world would have been taught that in LAW-101 class and that should have stuck to his brain just like Newtons 1st Law of motion is stuck in the brain of any Engineer be him/her Electrical, Civil, Mechanical, etc in any part of the world.

Can you image how bad we have gone as a Nation when the CJN can publicly come out as say "he forgot to declare an account holding about $3.0m". It is an insult on our collective intelligence as a Nation. If it is China, he will be facing death sentence as we speak or he would have committed suicide. If it is the Western world, he would have resigned by now.

I don't know how we will move forward as nation when some people can even think of defending such CJN after the public admittance. Yet we will be expecting government to transform our fortunes overnight while defending those that are stealing our commonwealth.

Our major problem is we "tribalize" and "politicize" every issue without addressing the core of matter. We have left the core matter that the CJN (The Chief Lawman of Nigeria) flouted the law of the land and admitted so publicly and now turned the matter to a case of PMB is persecuting "our son"/"a political opponent"

Let the truth be said, the supposed CJN is not the "Chief Justice of Nigeria" but a "Thief of Justice of Nigeria". Let him go and defend his "forgetfulness" in court of law with the 140 SANs (Senior "Arufins" of Nigeria). Arufin in Yoruba means Law flouter/Law Dis-respecter. He needs to tell us how he made $3.0m as the CJN.

Bunch of thieves and thief defenders.

NIGERIANS BEWARE OF THIS CLOWNS WHO ARE CLAIMING TO BE FIGHTING CORRUPTION.

PRESIDENT BUHARI IS NOT AGAINST CORRUPTION
Femi Aribisala.

It is one thing to talk against corruption. It is another thing altogether to be against corruption. President Buhari only talks against corruption.

Muhammadu Buhari ran for election as president of Nigeria in 2003, 2007 and 2011. He failed woefully on all three occasions. He failed because he did not have the attributes that Nigerians wanted in a president. Many, including this writer, felt he was too sectional. His stint as military head-of-state between 1984 and 1985 was eloquent testimony of this.

Among other misdeeds, Buhari preferred a Fulani from Niger to an Igbo from Nigeria as Secretary-General of the OAU. He locked in jail, Vice-President Alex Ekwueme, an Igbo; but only put under house arrest, President Shehu Shagari, a Fulani. He told Lam Adesina of Oyo State that the Fulani herdsmen of the North are his people, as opposed to the Yoruba farmers of the South. He proclaimed a determination to install sharia law all over the federation.

As a result, in 2011, out of a total of 30 million votes cast, Buhari could only muster 391,922 votes from all the states of the entire Southern Nigeria.

Anti-corruption rhetoric

However, in 2015, Buhari ran for president yet again, and succeeded. He succeeded for one singular reason: he ran on an anti-corruption platform. By 2015, Nigerians were fed up with the rampant corruption that took place under the PDP. While then President Goodluck Jonathan himself was not believed to be corrupt, the popular perception was that he tolerated corruption. Indeed, it was believed that corruption went to an unacceptable level under his stewardship.

Enter, therefore, an image-laundered and refurbished Muhammadu Buhari, smelling of roses. Buhari was presented to Nigerians as our own home-grown “Mr. Integrity.” He mesmerized a gullible electorate seeking a corruption-free presidential Messiah with highfaluting anti-corruption rhetoric: “We cannot build an economy where corruption is the working capital.” “I will kill corruption before it kills Nigeria.”

As a result, many Nigerians who had been implacably opposed to him in his earlier three election campaign efforts, swung to his support. These included Nigeria’s Nobel laureate, Wole Soyinka, who had earlier warned that: “In Buhari, we have been offered no evidence of the sheerest prospect of change.” It also included men like Nasir El-Rufai, who observed earlier that Buhari remains “perpetually unelectable” as a result of his “insensitivity to Nigeria’s diversity and his parochial focus.” Even his former political nemesis, Olusegun Obasanjo, became his supporter.

However, after nearly four years in power, we now know that President Buhari has no real anti-corruption clothes. It is one thing to talk against corruption. It is another thing altogether to be against corruption. President Buhari only talks against corruption. His body language and policy options show conclusively that he is not really against corruption. Buhari’s anti-corruption is merely a means to an end. That end is not to rid Nigeria of corruption but to get into power and to stay in power.

Scandalous PTF

If President Buhari was truly against corruption, he would not have agreed to serve under Sani Abacha, one of the most corrupt Heads-of-State ever in the history of Nigeria. In 1994, Abacha appointed Buhari as chairman of the Petroleum Trust Fund. Between 1994 and 1999, the PTF had a colossal budget of N181 billion. If President Buhari was truly Mr. Integrity, it would not have been discovered that the PTF he presided over was riddled with corruption.

In 1999, President Obasanjo set up an Interim Management Committee (IMC) headed by Haroun Adamu to investigate the activities of the PTF. While today, the EFCC is haranguing Ayodele Fayose over N6.9 billion; in 1999, the Adamu Committee discovered that a whopping N25 billion disappeared from PTF coffers under Buhari’s stewardship.

Nigerians need to know that, under Buhari, the PTF specialized in buying expired drugs. A team of pharmacists commissioned to verify the Drugs Revolving Fund Programmes of the PTF discovered the prevalence of expired drugs all over the country worth over N2.4 billion. Ambulances that could have been purchased for N3 million were inflated under Buhari’s stewardship to N13 million, resulting in a loss of N900 million.

The Adamu Committee discovered that in the PTF Assisted HIV/AIDS programmes under Buhari’s stewardship, there was an excessive order of HIV/AIDS kits which resulted in most of the kits expiring before use, and gross inflation of the purchase price. This brought a loss of N579 million to the Fund. In the health sector, frames that could have been bought for N80 and N880 were inflated to N1,900 resulting in a loss of N13 million.

The Adamu Committee valued the PTF residential estate under Buhari at N328 million. However, the contract was inflated by N374 million to N703 million. The finances of the estate were so fishy, the Obasanjo government decided to confiscate the entire project. The same sharp practices were discovered with regard to the extension of the PTF headquarters under Buhari’s stewardship. The Committee valued the construction cost at N326 million, but this was inflated by Buhari’s PTF to N461 million, thereby defrauding the fund of N135 million.
In the rural water supply programme, the Committee was able to recover an estimated N1 billion paid illegally by Buhari’s PTF to contractors as a result of overpricing. In the National Health and Educational Institutions Rehabilitation programme, over N600 million was recovered from contractors due to non-performance and overpricing. In the National Educational Material Procurement Programme, N900 million was recovered.

The rural telecommunication programme was also riddled with fraud. Buhari’s PTF paid N1.6 billion as mobilization for the programme without any contract being signed whatsoever. In the Administration Account, N664 million was recovered. In the Project Account, N2.4 billion in discrepancies was recovered. In the Treasury Account, N510 million was recovered.

How can Buhari be known as Mr. Integrity and yet have this kind of tack-record? The Haroun Adamu Committee insisted that Buhari himself should be probed by the government. However, because of the unspoken fraternity in Nigeria whereby generals don’t probe generals, Obasanjo declined the recommendation to probe Buhari. But earlier this year, Obasanjo expressed his regret at not probing Buhari given the damning report about his stewardship at the PTF. The truth of the matter is that if Buhari was indeed anti-corruption, he would not have presided over a corruption-riddled PTF.

Group Captain Usman Jibrin, a board member of the PTF, resigned from the organization in protest over the blatant irregularities in Buhari’s appointment of the Afri-Project Consortium (APC) led by Salihijo Ahmad as consultants for the organisation. As a matter of fact, a principal actor in the PTF consultancy scam committed suicide immediately the probe into the organization’s affairs was instituted for fear of being exposed.


Hypocritical anti-corruption

If President Buhari were against corruption, he would not have been an advocate and defender of the criminally-corrupt. Nigerians need no convincing that former Head-of-State, Sani Abacha, was corrupt. After his death, it was discovered that he stashed huge chunks of public funds running into billions of dollars in different countries in Europe.

Nevertheless, on the 10th anniversary of his death, Buhari told incredulous Nigerians that Abacha never stole. He maintained that all the allegations of looting the treasury leveled against him were “baseless.” He said: “ten years after Abacha, those allegations remain unproven because of lack of facts.”

Buhari held this position in spite of the millions of dollars of Abacha’s loot recovered from banks around the world, and in spite of the fact that the Abacha’s family signed a formal agreement to return over $1 billion of such monies to the Nigerian government. Paradoxically, the same president who insisted Abacha never stole said this to Nigerians through his Twitter handle in 2016: “Nigeria is awaiting receipt from Swiss Govt. of $320 million, identified as illegally taken from Nigeria under Abacha.”

So did Abacha steal or not? According to Mr. President, Abacha never stole because President Buhari was part and parcel of the Abacha administration. To admit Abacha was corrupt is to admit that the PTF he presided over under Abacha was also corrupt.

We can see, therefore, that President Buhari’s anti-corruption fervor is merely self-serving. He regards only his political opponents as having the copyright on corruption. By this token, every allegation of corruption leveled against his friends and financiers must be “baseless.” When Obasanjo supported him, Obasanjo was not a thief. Immediately Obasanjo stopped supporting him, Buhari alleged Obasanjo mismanaged a $16 billion power project as president.

As a result, in the last four years, President Buhari has prosecuted a war on corruption essentially against his political opponents. For Buhari, all PDP members are guilty of corruption until proven innocent. The president does not even wait for the verdict of the courts. The accused are tried and convicted in the media by the president and his cohorts, as long as they do not belong to the APC.

Corruption-ridden government

President Buhari cannot campaign for re-election on an anti-corruption platform when, in the last four years, he has condoned corruption among his cohorts. Corruption never disqualifies anyone from prominence in Buhari’s APC. Bisi Akande, the first chairman of the APC, was jailed on corruption charges. The APC minority leader in the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, was convicted in the United States for defrauding a client.

A judicial commission of enquiry set up by the Rivers State government maintained that, under former governor Rotimi Amaechi, now Minister of Transport, a whopping N53 billion disappeared from the Rivers State Reserve Fund. Babatunde Fashola, former governor of Lagos and now Minister of Works and Housing, was accused of spending N78 million of government money upgrading his personal website and of inflating the cost of the Lekki-Ikoyi link-bridge from N6 billion to N25 billion. None of these cases were taken up by the EFCC.

A federal high court has ordered that criminal proceedings be instituted by the EFCC against APC chairman, Adams Oshiomhole, for corrupt enrichment as governor of Edo. If the court had not ordered this, it would clearly not have been done by the EFCC.

Abubakar Audu was under prosecution by the EFCC for misappropriating N11 billion of state funds when he was governor of Kogi between 1999 and 2003. Nevertheless, he was nominated as APC governorship candidate for Kogi in 2015. In spite of the fact that the EFCC had filed charges of corruption against Timipre Sylva for defrauding Bayelsa State of N19 billion between 2009 and 2012; he nevertheless became the governorship candidate of the APC for Bayelsa in 2016.

Under this anti-corruption president, $43 million discovered in an apartment at Osborne Towers, Ikoyi, Lagos has been buried. Nothing more has been heard about the award of $25 billion worth of contracts without due process by Dr. Maikanti Baru, the GMD of the NNPC, as alleged by the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu. The president has kept mum over the DSS indictment of the acting chairman of the EFCC, Ibrahim Magu, and the report of the investigative panel on him set up by the Attorney General.

Nothing more has been heard from the probe panel on the N500 million bribe allegedly paid by MTN to Abba Kyari, the chief of staff to the president, designed to influence the government to discontinue its heavy stance on the $5 billion fine imposed on the company. Then there is the Abdulrashid Maina scandal, whereby a man who turned fugitive when alleged to have misappropriated N2 billion of the pension fund and was on the EFCC wanted list, found his way back into the country and into the federal civil service with promotion.

We are still waiting to be told the owner of the Legico Shopping Plaza in Lagos where the EFCC claimed it found N448 million in cash. Under this administration, the corruption scandals are unrelenting. How can Buhari expect Nigerians to believe he is sincere in fighting corruption under these hypocritical circumstances?

[quote author=PaChukwudi44 post=74798883]OP please show me the thread you opened during the gandujegate.If there is none then STFU!!!secondly i don't know where you got your figure of $3m from.

Finally the charge is for alleged failure to update assets in 2009.Everything was declared in his last update in 2016[/quote]. Believing a thing you have to say is like trusting the devil himself I would rather pass n advice NL that are not Biafrans to jump n pass this your lie like the plaque that ravaged every first in Egypt.

To my greatest surprise, the so called learned people who are the middlemen in bribe giving and taking in the judiciary are all talking about nonsense procedure-that Onoghen should be reported to NJC first. One even called for the punishment of the lawyer that is representing the FG in the case saying he isn't abreast of justice position on judges' discipline and I ask, if a judge slaughters a man now, must he be reported to the NJC who will take more than a year before commencing sitting over the case? Thereafter they will determine whether the judge should be prosecuted or not before prosecution will commence? Is this what these so called learned people are saying? Another barrister said the judge that delivered that judgement they are trying to take cover in never gave a blanket ruling. He said it's not in all cases that judges will be reported to the NJC. To me it appears as if those SANs are LAZY, failing to read that judgement so as to comprehend it.

PaChukwudi44:
OP please show me the thread you opened during the gandujegate.If there is none then STFU!!!secondly i don't know where you got your figure of $3m from.

Finally the charge is for alleged failure to update assets in 2009.Everything was declared in his last update in 2016

don't mind the zombie , they have started manufacturing figures again

PaChukwudi44:
OP please show me the thread you opened during the gandujegate.If there is none then STFU!!!secondly i don't know where you got your figure of $3m from.

Finally the charge is for alleged failure to update assets in 2009.Everything was declared in his last update in 2016

Is it deliberate that we behave like this on this forum? How can a sitting governor be prosecuted? Are you deaf and dumb that you don't know the laws of the land again? Aren't you aware Ganduje's wife is to be arraigned in a court soon over a $5million case?

JusticeSeeker:
Is deliberate that we behave like this on this forum? How can a sitting governor be prosecuted? Are you deaf and dumb that you don't know the laws of the land again? Aren't you aware Ganduje's wife is to be arraigned in a court soon over a $5million case?

Are you deaf and dumb? Don't you know the laws of the land? How can a sitting CJN be tried without recourse to the NJC?

JusticeSeeker:
To my greatest surprise, the so called learned people who are the middlemen in bribe giving and taking in the judiciary are all talking about nonsense procedure-that Onoghen should be reported to NJC first. One even called for the punishment of the lawyer that is representing the FG in the case saying he isn't abreast of justice position on judges' discipline and I ask, if a judge slaughters a man now, must he be reported to the NJC who will take more than a year before commencing sitting over the case? Thereafter they will determine whether the judge should be prosecuted or not before prosecution will commence? Is this what these so called learned people are saying? Another barrister said the judge that delivered that judgement they are trying to take cover in never gave a blanket ruling. He said it's not in all cases that judges will be reported to the NJC. To me it appears as if those SANs are LAZY, failing to read that judgement so as to comprehend it.

The judgment says no judicial officer can be tried without recourse to the NJC irrespective of the charges.Justice Sylvester Ngwuta was freed from criminal charges based on that judgment.

Even the cjn knows he is at fault, he is only hiding under njc procedure to keep his job, the same njc procedure that could not rescue the former chief of appeal court justice Ayo salami.

Personally I have no qualms but I think pmb is justified for keeping that inec woman on her job, shittu the telecoms minister is justified for not resigning. I only feel for Kemi Adeosun, she would have gather small liver and stayed on her job. It's a dog eat dog game in Nigerian politics!

The same premium times that was doing count down for Kemi adeosun, wrote a public letter to pmb for the cjn to keep his job.

We are all hypocrites as Nigerians

PaChukwudi44:

The judgment says no judicial officer can be tried without recourse to the NJC irrespective of the charges.Justice Sylvester Ngwuta was freed from criminal charges based on that judgment.

It's not true. Another lawyer who read the judgment says it's not so.

Pusyiter:
@first, your thread will not make FP because I do not know what this forum is turning into.
Second, reactions to your point will be derailed because I do not know the generation we are breeding.
We are no longer objective on National issues and we want to build a Nation. We compare frivolously as a means to justify abnormalities.
We hardly think because our sense of reasoning has been beclouded.
It is a pity.

Checked ur profile and gbam! APC Zombie!!

You no get work PDP fool.
God punish you generation.
May you die slowly goat

Turantula:

Checked ur profile and gbam! APC Zombie!!

PaChukwudi44:

The judgment says no judicial officer can be tried without recourse to the NJC irrespective of the charges.Justice Sylvester Ngwuta was freed from criminal charges based on that judgment.

Upgrade please. I am not a lawyer, but having the opportunity to listen to some of the best in the profession, there arose one unanimity amongst them. That issue is members of the bench are categorized either as either judicial officers or public officers as the case may be. Offences committed as a judicial officer goes to the NJC, while those committed as a public officer goes to the courts. Ngwuta committed an offence in the course of dispensing justice i.e he comnitted an offence as a judicial officer. This falls under the NJC. The CJN offence wasn't committed in the course of dispensing justice but while performing a function as a public officer.
All what you staked your life on yesterday never came to pass. A govt can't bring

docadams:


Upgrade please. I am not a lawyer, but having the opportunity to listen to some of the best in the profession, there arose one unanimity amongst them. That issue is members of the bench are categorized either as either judicial officers or public officers as the case may be. Offences committed as a judicial officer goes to the NJC, while those committed as a public officer goes to the courts. Ngwuta committed an offence in the course of dispensing justice i.e he comnitted an offence as a judicial officer. This falls under the NJC. The CJN offence wasn't committed in the course of dispensing justice but while performing a function as a public officer.
All what you staked your life on yesterday never came to pass. A govt can't bring

Sometimes you wonder how these lawyers become SANs, If more than 80 SANs can tell you that the CJN is untouchable as it stands then you know we need a complete overhaul of all judicial officers.

That's why I hate law, too many Grey arrears, and twisting of the constitution.

pryme:


Sometimes you wonder how these lawyers become SANs, If more than 80 SANs can tell you that the CJN is untouchable as it stands then you know we need a complete overhaul of all judicial officers.

That's why I hate law, too many Grey arrears, and twisting of the constitution.

Most Nigerian lawyers will defend the devil against God if the motive is right

pryme:


Sometimes you wonder how these lawyers become SANs, If more than 80 SANs can tell you that the CJN is untouchable as it stands then you know we need a complete overhaul of all judicial officers.

That's why I hate law, too many Grey arrears, and twisting of the constitution.

Nigerian judges are the greatest threat to our democracy. Judges have in the past issued very senseless and stupid judgements. It was the supreme Court that affirmed the 2007 elections, a election held without serial numbers on the ballot, which was clearly again to the electoral act.

It was the judiciary that granted Peter Odili perpetual injunction against prosecution for corruption.

It was the judiciary that asked Lucky Igbenedion to pay N2 million as punishment for stealing billions from Edo state.

It was the judiciary that IBB used as an excuse to annul the June 12 elections. He said he wanted to save the country from conflicting and confusing judgements by the judiciary.

If care is not taken, the judiciary will plunge us into another round of crisis.

wirinet:


Nigerian judges are the greatest threat to our democracy. Judges have in the past issued very senseless and stupid judgements. It was the supreme Court that affirmed the 2007 elections, a election held without serial numbers on the ballot, which was clearly again to the electoral act.

It was the judiciary that granted Peter Odili perpetual injunction against prosecution for corruption.

It was the judiciary that asked Lucky Igbenedion to pay N2 million as punishment for stealing billions from Edo state.

It was the judiciary that IBB used as an excuse to annul the June 12 elections. He said he wanted to save the country from conflicting and confusing judgements by the judiciary.

If care is not taken, the judiciary will plunge us into another round of crisis.

The lawyers that brainstormed to produce charges against Onoghen are wonderful brains. They carefully avoided any charge that will mention or relate to administrative/judicial misconduct thereby making the case purely that of a public officer infracting the laws of the land. If not, here we are with a CJN that has close to 1 billion in his foreign accounts which amounts to unlawful enrichment. Kudos to them.

JusticeSeeker:
The lawyers that brainstormed to produce charges against Onoghen are wonderful brains. They carefully avoided any charge that will mention or relate to administrative/judicial misconduct thereby making the case purely that of a public officer infracting the laws of the land. If not, here we are with a CJN that has close to 1 billion in his foreign accounts which amounts to unlawful enrichment. Kudos to them.

I don't think the lawyers went about it the right way. I feel they should have made the case both public officer and judicial/administrative misconduct. They should have first pursued the admistrative/judicial case at the NJC (even though they know the NJC trial would be a farce), and also pursue the public office misconduct at the CCT. They should waited a few months (and see how long the NJC would drag it's feet as they usually do in cases concerning it's officers), before dragging the CJN to the CCT.

They way they are going about it, all of the judiciary and the opposition party would vehemently defend the CJN. They are even prepared to launch this country into a judicial crisis. Most senior lawyers having case at the supreme Court or intending to go to the supreme Court will not want to be seen as being against the CJN.

wirinet:


I don't think the lawyers went about it the right way. I feel they should have made the case both public officer and judicial/administrative misconduct. They should have first pursued the admistrative/judicial case at the NJC (even though they know the NJC trial would be a farce), and also pursue the public office misconduct at the CCT. They should waited a few months (and see how long the NJC would drag it's feet as they usually do in cases concerning it's officers), before dragging the CJN to the CCT.

They way they are going about it, all of the judiciary and the opposition party would vehemently defend the CJN. They are even prepared to launch this country into a judicial crisis. Most senior lawyers having case at the supreme Court or intending to go to the supreme Court will not want to be seen as being against the CJN.

This case has no bearing in anyway with the NJC. The judiciary has created immunity for herself when the constitution has not done that for them.

@ op, that is where we are. Everything is politics to people. As you can see from the comments above.

JusticeSeeker:
This case has no bearing in anyway with the NJC. The judiciary has created immunity for herself when the constitution has not done that for them.

I know, but we are in a very peculiar and precarious position. The legislative and judiary had always been jealous of the total immunity granted the executive ( I also frown at total immunity. the executive should only have administrative immunity and not criminal). So the legislative and judiciary have found a loophole to grab total immunity also.

The problem is the CJN and the judiciary are ready to blackmail the whole country to enforce that total immunity on judicial officers.