kaen1317:
That will not stop the senile old man from going back to daura

would proceed to address the points at issue on the Onnoghen saga as I see it. First, the President is accused of not following due process in the suspension of Onnoghen. This matter is taken by its proponents in isolation of other developments that preceded the president’s action. It is reported and has, in fact, become public knowledge that the body constitutionally positioned to interrogate the Chief Justice of Nigeria in the event of a query or a petition against the Chief Justice is the Nigeria Judicial Council (NJC). With the awareness that the state is prying into his accounts and he is to be interrogated on the amounts and dimension of transactions in the said accounts, the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Chief Walter Onnoghen suspended the sitting of the NJC indefinitely. This becomes very weighty when it is acknowledged that a meeting of the NJC is not possible without the approval of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. In the enabling act of the NJC, it is stated that “the council shall hold meetings at such times and place as the chairman may appoint”. Where it applies, “a meeting of the council shall be convened if five or more members make a request to that effect, in writing to the chairman, specifying the business to be transacted”. When this is placed side by side the provisions for membership of the NJC, through which over 2/3 of its members are selected by the NC, it indicates that Onnoghen has actually performed a coup against any attempt to question his weird indulgences.

If Onnoghen was not guilty, why would he suspend the sitting of the NJC indefinitely? Having done that and knowing that the NJC is the only body through due process and constitutional conformity by which he could be questioned, Onnoghen had subverted justice and crippled the capacity of the Nigerian state to check his misdemeanours. Therefore, the President acting through a motion ex parte of the court might not have had a better option to rescuing Nigeria from the evil claws of Onnoghen.

Onnoghen trying to subvert the institutions of due process of the country, in running accounts that do not reflect what he earns in salaries as a judge, Onnoghen has infringed on the moral premise; the foundation of community, the primary pillar from which everything about our coexistence devolve. Onnoghen has endangered the basis for our coexistence as a people. Meandering through the provisions of the law and emasculating this more devastating evil was the point of error on the part of most of our commentators. For democracy to exist, community must first exist. Also, for the judiciary to exist, community must be in existence. Thus, to destroy the basis of community inadvertently negates the institutions we claim we are protecting. Onnoghen was and is the problem. The errors of the executive were enabled by or incidental to his subterfuge. The primary issue is the moral ethos and not its legalistic underpinnin

The composition of the council according to the 1999 constitution is skewed as such: The chief justice of Nigeria who shall be the chairman, the next most senior justice of the supreme court who shall be the deputy chairman, the president of the court of appeal, five retired justices selected by the CJN from the supreme court or court of appeal, the chief judge of the federal high court, five chief judges of states to be appointed by the CJN from among the chief judges of the states and of the high court of the FCT, Abuja one grand kadi to be appointed by the CJN from among grand kadis of the Sharia courts of appeal to serve in rotation for two years; one president of the customary court of appeal to be appointed by the CJN from among the Presidents of the Customary Courts of Appeal to serve in rotation for two years, five members of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) who have been qualified to practise for a period of not less than 15 years, at least one of whom shall be a SAN, appointed by the CJN on the recommendation of the national executive committee of the NBA to serve for two years and subject to re-appointment, provided that the five members shall sit in the Council only for the purposes of considering the names of persons for appointment to the superior courts of record, and
two persons not being legal practitioners, who in the opinion of the CJN, are of unquestionable integrity.

https://www.thecable.ng/onnoghen-saga-a-call-for-national-reflection

Seetto:

That senile man will rule for another four years, he is far far better than your confirmed thiefatiku , ask his hypocrite boss obj, he is a living witness.

sogodihno:
PMB will finish these guys, before leaving in 2023, this is why I voted him in 2015 and my vote counts that is why am voting for him again in 2019. we are not returning the looter to power.

#i stand with PMB

FallenEmbers:
I trust EFCC, they are always on the hottest opposition matter

superior1:
Starting investigation after suspending him.

Buhari is a criminal.

Limitednow:


Source: https://politicstimesng.com/onnoghen-magu-says-efcc-investigating-embattled-cjn-for-money-laundering/

Bolustical:
Those advising the ex-CJN to go this hard route of fighting this case are not doing him any good.

He could have just resigned jejely since he has admitted forgetfulness.

This President is one person that abhors corruption and he will follow this case to the latter, I can bet you.

Onoghen won't survive this.

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

FallenEmbers:
I trust EFCC, they are always on the hottest opposition matter

Bolustical:
Those advising the ex-CJN to go this hard route of fighting this case are not doing him any good.

He could have just resigned jejely since he has admitted forgetfulness.

This President is one person that abhors corruption and he will follow this case to the latter, I can bet you.

Onoghen won't survive this.