Onnoghen’s Trial: Appeal Court Berates CCT over Disobedience of Court Orders
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Says suspension breaches right to fair hearing, dismiss appeals as overtaken
By Alex Enumah in Abuja

The Court of Appeal, Abuja Division on Friday berated the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT) over its refusal to obey orders of court made against it during the trial of former Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Walter Onnoghen.
Onnoghen, who was in January this year dragged before the tribunal over charges of failure to declare his assets as required by law for public officers, was on April 18, 2019 convicted by the CCT on all six-count charge preferred against him by the federal government.


However, delivering judgement in four interlocutory appeals filed by Onnoghen, the appellate court held that orders of court are sacrosanct and must be obeyed until they are set aside.

The Court of Appeal in another judgment also faulted the suspension of Onnoghen on the grounds that the suspension violated the right of the former CJN to fair hearing, adding that the order, which was obtained in secrecy posed a lot of questions.
In the first appeal, which borders on Onnoghen’s suspension as Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN) and Chairman of the National Judicial Council (NJC), the three-member panel presided by Justice Stephen Adah, held that justice must not be shrouded in secrecy as done in the granting of the ex parte application.

The appellate court said, from the record of proceedings, parties had joined issues and matter adjourned to a later date, only for the federal government to go behind to take order that affected the interest of the appellant, thereby denying him the opportunity to be heard in the matter.


However, the court declined to make any order against the suspension since the trial had been concluded and that an appeal on the substantive matter was pending before the court.
“Since the ex parte order had been spent and cannot serve any useful purpose and judgement in the substantive matter had been delivered, the appeal is hereby struck out,” Justice Adah held.

In the second appeal relating to the bench warrant issued against Onnoghen by the CCT, the court struck out the appeal on the ground that the records of proceedings transmitted to the court did not show that bench warrant was issued and that there was no supplementary records to established that warrant for arrest was made.
“There is nothing in this appeal that requires the attention of the court, it is here by struck out,” Justice Adah held.

In the third appeal, Justice Tinuade Akomolafe Wilson, who delivered the judgement of the three-member panel, agreed with the tribunal that the new law allows the action of the CCT.

According to the judgement although the general principle of law is that when jurisdiction of a court is challenged, the issue of jurisdiction must be first determined, nonetheless, the judge held that the specific legislation in Section 306 of the Administration of Criminal Justice Act, 2015 overrides the general principle of law. The appeal was consequently dismissed.


In the fourth appeal, which borders on the refusal of the CCT to obey orders of four different courts restraining the tribunal from proceeding with the trial of Onnoghen pending the hearing and determination of the various substantive suits in their courts, the appellate court held that the tribunal erred in law by disobeying the orders.


Justice Peter Igeh, who delivered the judgement held, “Judgments, rulings, decisions and orders issued by court of law are sacrosanct and must be obeyed until they are set aside.


“Parties are bound by court orders and the order must not be treated with levity.”


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FAKE PASTORS OF PROSPERITY.

After he preached, money was dropped all over the pulpit. Some people were removing their gold necklaces and wrist watches and were dropping on the pulpit. Some removed their SIM cards and dropped their expensive phones.

Another man of God came to preach to the same people. The same people who dropped their car keys ran back home and brought out their juju and surrendered to the altar.
And were crying to God for mercy. Some brought the guns and masks they use for arm robbery. While some brought out their phones in front of the church and were destroying their SIM cards which they used to dupe people.
You could hear adults crying like babies.
Begging God for mercy.

What did the first preacher preach that made them ran back home to bring their money and didn't make them drop their charms?

The difference is in the burden of the preacher.

How can we see the people who are trooping to hell. Their prayer lives are dead. And all that we are after is their landed properties and car keys?

To me, nothing is wrong with people coming to give offering when a preacher is preaching.

But Lord, help my life. I don't want to join those that are entertaining this generation to perdition. If people hear me and drop their money without dropping their charms, it means I have failed.

Man of God, this month, Ask God to give you fresh burden for the lost. If you can, cry to Him to impact you once again with the passion for souls.

If not, people will look for you and will not see you. You may be all over social media, television, billboards, radio etc. Yet people that use to know you will start asking where you are?

The reason so many Pastors have gone to bow to mami water for power to grow their ministry is because God's grace have left them. They started very well. But along the line, they started making merchandise with the anointing.

God lifted His Hands from them and they became shadows of themselves. Instead of them to cry back to God for realignment, they went down to Egypt for help, So as to maintain their crowd and their fame.

Today, forget the laughter on their faces.
They are in trouble. Without fleets of cars and crowd in your church, you are still better than them. There is an Angel wearing my face to tell you this now. This month, go back to where you dropped your burden for souls...
Go back to those days when you use to pray and groan in Gods presence before the program for God to give you souls as you go to preach. Remember the days when you use to celebrate anytime sinners were running out to surrender to Christ..

Go back to those days, sir. Money will come.
But let's not lose what money cannot buy while looking for money. Tell your host to make arrangements before inviting you to preach.
Let them not mount pressure on you to raise funds to cover the hotel bills and recover publicity cost.

This is a generation that packs sinners in crusades and start raising funds from them without leading them to Christ. A generation that organizes revival meetings where no one receives the baptism of the Holy Spirit.
No one was reconciled to Christ. Yet, everyone sowed dangerous financial seeds.

And we don't care. God is about to move in the land. He is about to silence many who are using Him to rob people and to give volumes to voices of men who have been carrying His burden genuinely....
If you are accepting preaching engagements this year, let it be for God to use you to reconcile people back to Him...
If not, you are declaring to heaven that you are no more useful in this on going end time revival and global harvest ...
Oh....
May God not raise another man to do what He anointed us to do for Him...
In Jesus Mighty Name I pray....���

I wrote this article to my Christians brother's & sister's �

Happy Sunday to my Christian friends & may almighty God answer una prayers... Ameen �

From Abdullahi Bin Isah