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SAHARAREPORTERS, NEW YORK OCT 23, 2015

Two Nigerian lawyers have urged President Muhammadu Buhari to probe the former Chief Justice of the Nigerian Supreme Court, Alfa Belgore, whom they accused of being massively corrupt and engaging in subversion of justice. They said Justice Belgore had obtained a grand house in the upscale Asokoro area of Abuja through his corrupt activities.

In a joint telephone conversation with a correspondent of SaharaReporters, the two lawyers stated that retired Justice Belgore had a knack for bringing the judiciary to shame. “It appears that, instead of promoting the development of the judiciary and the administration of justice, Justice Alfa Belgore specializes in corrupting the process,” one of the lawyers, an Abuja-based Senior Advocate of Nigeria.

The two lawyers said the immediate reason they were calling for a thorough investigation of the former Chief Justice was Mr. Belgore’s role in trying to induce the Court of Appeal to squash the trial of Senate President Bukola Saraki by the Code of Conduct Tribunal. SaharaReporters had revealed that Mr. Saraki had hired Justice Belgore to broker a judgment by the Court of Appeal that would have squelched the senator’s trial by the Code of Conduct Tribunal.

“If SaharaReporters had not exposed his attempt to intervene with the Court of Appeal on behalf of Dr. Saraki, he would have easily scuttled the case,” one of the two lawyers said.

According to the two lawyers, who spoke on condition of anonymity, many other Nigerian lawyers “are embarrassed by the conduct of former Justice Belgore.” They added that the retired Chief Justice had a history of meddling in trials and either offering bribes to willing judges or intimidating those who reject his inducement.

The lawyers alleged that former Director General of the National Intelligence Agency (NIA), Olaniyi Oladeji, used Justice Belgore to thwart the course of justice in a lawsuit filed by former Ambassador Dozie Nwanna. “

According to the lawyers, Mr. Nwanna had filed a lawsuit seeking to reverse his premature retirement, which deprived him the opportunity to become the next DG of NIA. They said Mr. Oladeji, former Attorney General of the Federation, Mohammed Adoke, and former First Lady Patience Jonathan, employed Justice Belgore to sabotage Mr. Nwanna’s lawsuit. They said that the NIA bought a swanky home for Justice Belgore in Asokoro in exchange for his illicit work “to delay or attempt to deny justice to Nwanna.”

According to the two lawyers, Justice Belgore threatened Justice Maureen Nkechinyereugo Esowe, the first judge in Mr. Nwanna's lawsuit. “When she refused to be cowed by Justice Belgore, he sponsored a petition against her alleging bias on her part. “In a conduct that was unbecoming of a man who once occupied the post of Chief Justice, Belgore accused Justice Esowe of trying to use her court to protect Ambassador Nwanna because they were both Igbo. He also claimed that Nwanna’s lawyer, Chike Maduekwe, was Justice Esowe’s cousin, which is blatantly false.”

The lawyers said Justice Belgore must have had access to Mrs. Esowe's personal data, and found out that she was related to former Ambassador Ojo Maduekwe. “Both Justice Esowe and Chief Ojo Maduekwe are from Abia State, but Nwanna’s lawyer, Chike Maduekwe, is from Anambra State,” one of the lawyers disclosed.

According to one of the lawyers, the petition orchestrated by Justice Belgore “made Justice Esowe to weep in court and to return the case file to the president of the National Industrial Court, Abuja. The matter was then reassigned to Justice Benedict Kanyip who was bold enough to reverse the capricious termination of Ambassador Nwanna's employment by the then DG of NIA, Oladeji.” By the time the judgment was delivered in December 2013, Mr. Oladeji had already bequeathed the office of DG of NIA to a successor who was Mr. Nwanna's junior in service.

The lawyers also alleged that Justice Belgore was notorious for using his influence to collect funds from high net-worth personalities as well as politically powerful persons in exchange for intimidating or inducing judges, many of them students when the former CJN was in active service.

“The Presidency should order an investigation into how Justice Belgore got a brand new mansion in Asokoro,” one of the lawyers urged.

In 2014, the National Judicial Council (NJC) sacked a young female judge, Justice Gladys Olotu, for alleged judicial misconduct. However, Mrs. Olotu filed a lawsuit against her firing. She also alleged that her real offense was that she scorned Justice Belgore’s entreaty to pervert justice in a case brought by a widow against an oil company seeking compensation on behalf of her late husband. The sacked justice accused Justice Belgore of seeking to influence her to rule in favor of the oil company.

http://saharareporters.com/2015/10/23/probe-former-chief-justice-belgore—lawyers-urge

Nigerians can now see how yorubas have been ganging up against igbos.

Yksoul:
WE DIDNT SEE OURSELVES AS IGBO,YORUBA,HAUSA E ,T.C DURING OBASANJO,YAR'ADUA BUT GOODLUCK JONATHAN STARTED IT AND WE NOW SEE OURSELVES AS SECTIONAL NIGERIANS

this govt is a govt of excuses and passing of blames to jonathan for their shortcomings

Justdulla:
Instead of Those He Goats screaming secession to embark on this sort of project so as to endear them to their people as this will mean They stand united in One voice, they are busy blocking highways and setting tires ablaze like Nigeria doesn't have bigger issues to deal with..mtscheeeew Bloody Bunch of Agberos who want to Govern a Mirage state

beautiful nonesense

NO, continue ur tribalism. continue hiding under imaginary "south south" to make Edo relevant

151487made:
Bros! Shey those 3million that died druing the war no carry gun to fight back or what?

most Bifran officers were unhurt during the war, nigeria killed civillians. IBB and OBJ were shot during the war, a yoruba air force officer was shot down according to this pic at the national war museum

dhoryn:
sorry to disappoint you. I'm proudly an Akwa ibomite

yorubas dnt kw geography, akwa ibom is more east than abia, u talk like a yoruba man

support PDP in 2019

SW really deserve this position

the Deji is a clown and too petty. he is suffering from inferiority complex

I laff wen jobless yorubas say that tradding is no brainer. mtcheew.

sandraokosun:
Have any one noticed their hasnt been any single press conference from the opposition pdp in the northern states. It shows you a reflection of what is on ground. The pdp northern chapters has been soaked into the change mantra, even till date none of them want to be seen as been against buhari to avoid been lynched or their offices burnt down as the north remains the same as it was during election.
It shows the hate wasnt just to gej as the wailers wanted us to believe.
In the north its death to pdp as a whole, and even the move by the pdp to immediately gather northern support by zoning its 2019 to them hasnt changed anything.
Pdp in the north is still scared to even critisize pmb, the pocket of unkwown half born northerners that critisize pmb do so at the comfort of their maitama abuja homes.
The problem wasnt the north getting candidate frm pdp.
Its about the fact that pdp is death to them, and pmb as president isnt helping pdp course.
Olisa metuh blamed pdp colosal loss on the pdp personal attack on then gmb, he further said if pdp had made such remark on ojuku pdp would have also lost east. It shows you the reason pdp and its team are scared of pmb, they cant even critisize him for fear of been lynched by the north which they have zoned their ticket to.
Fayose,ffk are the only ones that would dare, we know they have leaking mouths naturally.
How many northerners in pdp or outside pdp can dare even critise pmb, even when the innocent man would not use a finger on them (ask fayose).
It leads us to the same point were pdp would be voiceless against pmb in the north, after doing everything to compensate them, north treat them like outcast.
As the weeks, and years roll in, the more pmb cultlike followership, the more pdp even tries to please pmb so as to get in the good book of the north.
Whatever candidate they present either the weak dwawanbo or the unkwown ribadu changes nothing just as it changes nothing now that the north knw pdp zoned to them. When pdp top causus man like akpabio can praise his rival(pmb) and call him man of integrity at a large gathering like the senate floor on the screening of udoma as minister, it shows you all the pdp can do is praise pmb and give him soft landing to appease the north.
They say pmb intimitated akpabio with efcc, but did he also intimidate all the pdp senators even murray bruce who distinguish himself frm stv not politics fraud.
Truth is it was a ploy to make way for ameachi and not be seen to be an obstacle to pmb progress again by the north.
Its gullible supporters failed to read that, thats why u see akpabio only job is to say I SECOND every motion by ndume.
You would be seeing more of these as it goes on.
The pdp battling hard to be on pmb goodbooks, so the north can accept them.
Then tell me how u hope to beat pmb by making it easy for him.

Go and check Dogara's comittee chairmen. PDP 45, APC 48, also Saraki opted for a PDP deputy to stop APC from having their way, what makes u think 2019 will be different?. continue fo.ling urself that the north hate PDP, they hate GEJ for refusing to drop his ambition in 2015 dats all, with GEJ out, there will be realignments. stop hoping that SW stand a chance to produce president

superstar1:
What is my business about who is Igbo or who is not. If igbos are claiming aniomas and they agree that they are, what is anybody's business? Sort yourselves out with Aniomas.

What is the ratio of the officers of other ethnicities that took part in the coup, in comparison with Igbo ethnicity?

What is the number of the victims of the coup that are of different ethnicities, in comparison with the people that were igbos and were also victims?

Who was the eventual beneficiary of the coup? An igbo man.

If you can answer that, you can see the reason why it is an Igbo coup.

so its now about ratio? shifting the goal post is ur ppls trademark. Now answer the following questions: which parts of the country had crises and which ppl were main actors in the crises? which part had more officers in the army then??
First Generation of Nigerian Army officers,June 1959.

From Left to Right sitting: Captain Adeyinka Adebayo,Captain Philip Effiong,Captain Imo,Major Samuel Adesoji Ademulegun,Major Wellington Bassey,General Forster, Major JTU Ironsi,Major Ralph Shodeinde,Captain Zakaria Maimalari, Captain Conrad Nwawo, Captain David Ejoor.

Middle Row standing: Lt Igboba,Lt George Kurubo, (non Nigerian standing next to Kurubo), Lt J Akaga,Lt Patrick Anwunah, Lt Louis Ogbonnia, Lt Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, Lt Eyo Ekpo, Lt Arthur Unegbe, Lt Abogo Largema

Back Row: Lt Hilary Njoku, 2nd Lt Nzefili, 2nd Lt Ogunenwe, 2nd Lt Shadrak, Lt Madiebo,2nd Lt Anthony Eze, Lt Yakubu Gowon, 2nd Lt Sylvanus Nwanjei,Lt Yakubu Pam, 2nd Lt Hassan Katsina.

Those not in the picture are Captain Kur Mohammed,Lt Victor Banjo and Lt Michael Okwechime

superstar1:
Y

Those were well documented facts.

You had the opportunity to vote for regionalism during the last confab and by the record in the history, SE and other regions refused to vote for regionalism, except SW.

u jst go about claiming wat u can substantiate. at least, have u now accepted that a confirmed yorubaman "STRUCK in 1966?

superstar1:
Stop jumping around like the orango tang that you are.

Follow the line of argument of the discussion.

Why did SE not back the call for regionalism at the last Confab?

stop cursing, its childish

superstar1:
They were living big celebrity life in prison. Going for parties in the night.

While were they transfered to the prison in the then Eastern Region?

Lmfao, same useless claims without concrete back up. Ironsi saved the country from over ambitious young officers which included ppl from East, Midwest and Western regions. subsequent military govts used unitary system and i dont problem with that but the era of military is gone, they gave us unitary system and it should be abolish in a civilian govt

superstar1:
There is no book that is available on the way that I have not read, plus the satanic book written by that shameless Achebe, they tried to distort history.

but you can clearly see the title of the book by ademoyega, "WHY WE STRUCK". a yoruba man STRUCK

Kagawa10:
One Yoruba amidst several ibos doesn't make it become a Yoruba coup!
And for the records, Adegboyega killed no one as opposed to his ibo counterpart who killed every tribes' leader save for theirs!!

Lol, confused mumu. what is the meaning of "WHY WE STRUCK"?? please tell us what ademoyega was stricking at

superstar1:
I am quite relaxed. There is no big deal in being a coup plotter.

It is the way Igbos believe they were not allowed to form their country that is insulting and annoying to our sensibilities. You initiated a reaction that snowballed into a full scale war and you are still accusing others.

If there was no coup of January 1966, definitely there will not have been the pogrom of July 1966 and we won't be here talking about one stup1d Aburi Accord and the unfortunate Biafran war.

you have not answered my questiion regarding this pic. Is adewale ademoyega an igbo man?

Kagawa10:
Dundee, what's the use of region when it's not practising federalism and had the head of state foisting leaders on them? Do you know the creation of states doesn't stop the states from practising true federalism if allowed?
Let me ask you, What business do the goat, Ojukwu have with governing the north under Ironsi regime, especially after the same ibo killed their sarduna?
As a matter of fact, the creation of state is the best thing to ever happen to Nigeria in the sense that it prevented ibo thieves from claiming peoples' land and region!
Shameless cursed losers!

See this mumu oo. do u ppl read at all? Ironsi appointed Hasan Katsina to govern North, Ojukwu for East and Fajuyi for west.

Kagawa10:
Ibo were the pace setter of coup plotting though!
Ibos paved ways for other coup plotters!

ADEWALE ADEGBOYEGA IS IGBO ABI?

superstar1:
Y1bos and their persistent effort to revise history. Unfortunately the history is too detailed to be unjustly revised by born losers.

Ironsi introduced the Unitary system of governance into Nigeria and it was a smoke-screen for y1bos to be lording it over everybody, after killing their leaders.

This is the full speech of Aguiyi Ironsi Speech on January 15. 1966
1966 Coup Speech Of Major General Johnson Auiyi-Ironsi
                                       

The government of the Federation of Nigeria having ceased to function, the Nigerian Armed Forces have been invited to form an Interim Military Government for the purposes of maintaining law and order, and of maintaining essential services.
This invitation has been accepted, and I, General J.T.U. Aguiyi-Ironsi, the General Officer
Commanding the Nigerian Army, have been formally invested with authority as Head of the Federation Military Government, and Supreme Commander of the Nigerian Armed
Forces.

SUSPENSION OF CERTAIN PARTS OF THE CONSTITUTION

The Federation Military Government hereby decrees:

a. the suspension of the provisions of the Constitution of the Federation relating to the office of President, the establishment of Parliament, and of the office of Prime Minister;

b. the suspension of the provisions of the Constitutions of the Regions relating to the establishment of the offices of Regional Governors, Regional Premiers and Executive Councils, and Regional
Legislatures.

APPOINTMENT OF REGIONAL MILITARY GOVERNORS

The Federation Military Government further decrees:

a. that there shall be appointed a Military Governor in each Region of the Federation, who shall be directly responsible to the Federal Military Government for the good government of the Region; b. the appointment as Adviser to the Military Governor of the Region, of the last person to hold the office of Governor of the Region under the suspended provisions of the Constitution.

THE JUDICIARY, THE CIVIL SERVICE AND THE POLICE

The Federation Military Government further decrees:

a. that the Chief Justice and all other holders of judicial appointments within the Federation shall continue in their appointments, and that the judiciary generally shall continue to function under their existing statutes;

b. that all holders of appointments in the Civil Service of the Federation and of the Regions shall continue to hold their appointments and to carry out their duties in the normal way, and that similarly the Nigeria Police Force and the Nigeria Special Constabulary shall continue to exercise their functions in the normal way;

c. that all Local Government Police Forces and Native Authority Police Forces shall be placed under the overall command of the Inspector-General.

INTERNAL AFFAIRS POLICY

The Federation Military Government announces, in connection with the internal affairs of the Federation:

a. that it is determined to suppress the current disorder in the Western Region and in the Tiv area of the Northern Region;

b. that it will declare Martial Law in any area of the Federation in which disturbances continue;

c. that it is its intention to maintain law and order in the Federation until such time as a new Constitution for the Federation, prepared in accordance with the wishes of the people, is brought into
being.

EXTERNAL AFFAIRS POLICY

The Federation Military Government announces, in connection with the external affairs of the country:

a. that it is desirous of maintaining the existing diplomatic relations with other States; and

b. that it is its intention to honour all treaty obligations and all financial agreements and obligations entered into by the previous Government.

CITIZENS TO CO-OPERATE

The Federation Military Government calls upon all citizens of the Federation to extend their full co-operation to the Government in the urgent task of restoring law and order in the present crisis, and to
continue in their normal occupations.

Ironsi is a military man and he and any other military ruler need the unitary system to be able to rule, but we not in millitary era anymore, wats ur point

superstar1:
Who does not know that Military System all over the world is Unitary.

so 16 years after the end of military rule we shud continue with the unitary system

superstar1:
We were practising this before some greedy people, in their bid to lord it over others, cancelled it and introduced the devilish unitary system, that has been the clog in the wheel of progress of this nation and our bane since 1966.

All these they did, after killing leaders of other regions and telling us how Angel Gabriel protected the leaders from their own ethnicity from being killed by the trigger army mor0ns.

yorubas hahahah, read this book writen by your brother. just see the title, "why WE struck" and not why THEY struck

ikubch:
Gbam! On point. I said it in 2003.
It will boost the development of each region. If some regions like it, they should be shouting Biafra then while southwest sooner turn to Dubai while another should send all their people to mecca.

Lol, u said it in 2003, we are now in 2015 yet no show. u only remeber it wen u hear Biafra. Meanwhile Biafrans want regionalism and only threaten secession because the country fail to go back to regionalism. LMFAO @ SW turning to Dubai with mud houses and rusted roofs

I dont blame u, they have stopped history classes in our schools. 2011 is barely 4years, our able bodied NYSC members died because an old illiterate lost an election. I dont evn want to go into his coup agains a democratically elected government cos i wasn't born then, but the 2011 event made me believe everything i read about him

why cant ppl represent their tribe, what is south south. what is niger delta? Imo is more niger delta than calabar. Abia is more south than Benin.
Ngwa man in Aba and Ikwere man in PH understand each others' dialects and bear same names, same cant be said about Benin and Uyo.

wat a country, anybody who belong to another party will be attacked and that is wat u are proud of, a sopposedly educated SW now surrendering the destiny of the whole country to poverty stricken, illiterate and violent mofos up north? Biafrans are ryt by calling Nigeria a zoo

unlike in the zoo where touts parading as Oba decides who everybody must vote for

Nigeria is a mixture of Military dictatorship and fetish monarchist, we thats why the real democrats, the Biafrans, want out of the contraption

Tinubu didn't bother to send names and claim its the part's position, his humilation on Gabajas's case is still fresh in his memory, Dogara bowed and made the fo.ol house leader to avoid problem with Presido