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Pharaoh350s:
FG should leave this guy alone ,he is not the only person with assets declaration issue ,what of sen. Akpabio the new saint of Apc
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PaChukwudi44:
The law says they must go through the NJC

Not when it is directly about false asset declaration which is under the Jurisdiction of the CCB.

What part of this don't you understand?

kahal29:
"I have been PRACTICING LAW for over 50 years now, I don't THINK I have up to $10,000 in my foreign account. Where did CJN get $900,000, if not CORRUPTION"
-Robert Clarke, S.A.N

"The Supreme Court in Nigeria today is the most overworked court in the whole world, a self inflicted injury on them by themselves"

"For instance why should they take up jurisdiction on petitions on Gubernatorial matters"
- Robert Clarke, S.A.N

"The question on corruption is the brain work of politicians and a such the politicians have been corrupting judges in cases involving political matters"
-Robert Clarke, S.A.N

"Why is Onnoghen running to a Federal High Court to get an injunction to stop his trial when in 2013 he delivered a Supreme Court landmark judgement that for matters pertaining to CODE OF CONDUCT the CCT is the highest court in that matter"
-Robert Clarke, S.A.N



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CtpE4w1Veg

When you were busy paying hotel bills and frolicking with ladies renting guest houses were you expecting your money to grow?

PaChukwudi44:
Sorry Onnoggen is not responsible for your poverty.Everyone cannot be financially dumb like Buhari witg only 50 cows from 1980 to 2015

Okay by the time Buhari will leave office in 2023,

If you hear say he na Buhari get Keystone bank, private jet and private University, make you no cry ooo.

dokyOloye:
Brown toothed Thiefnuubu's the nation newspaper doing the hatchet job again.
High court judges get £20k yearly for their medical vacation,imagine how much a supreme court judge who has been a judge for at least 20years will get?
This is apart from salaries,other allowances like wardrobe, housing,etc.
If you think it is outrageous, Google how many hundred millions Ayesha Buhari gets for her cooking utensils yearly.
Judges are paid well all over the world to shield them from the temptation of taking bribes.

You have serious spiritual problems, but there is nobody to tell you

gaby:
Hmmm


Gandollar babaringa...

Forget Gandollar(which is also a big crime). The truth is that when the judiciary is corrupt, there's no hope for you and I.
Someone dear to me died in prison for something he didn't do cos the judge was a friend to the complainant

emmykk:
The nation newspaper is own by tinubu and tinubu is APC leader.

The CJN of Nigeria will fight this case to the last because his over 30+ years work in the civil service can not be rubbish by a 4year single term President.

What is about to rubbish him is his own very conduct over his 30+ year career

PaChukwudi44:
All this mumu investigators why not conclude your investigations before going to the media.There is nothing wrong with the CJN having investments.In fact judges are supposed to invest so as not to fall to temptation by accepting bribes.

All this media trial is hogwash.If you think you have a smoking gun then take it to the NJC.

You goofed again. Your comment just shows how little your knowledge is of the subject matter. Why are you averse to reading and objective analysis? The article contains answers to your posers but you will not read to decipher.

If the CJN is removed under whatever guise, who stands to benefit?

How I wish each of our political office holders, and all judges in Nigeria can be subjected this kind of scrutiny.

Then it will be crystal clear that this is not a hatchet job.

In any case, the dimensions that this case has assumed will have very far reaching consequences for all the concerned parties...

odiks:
Detectives may have found more “suspicious” funds in Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN) Walter Onnoghen’s accounts, The Nation has learnt.

There are also “suspicious” transactions, including an $800,000 Standard Chartered Bank investment subscription, sources said.

Also found is $630,000 lodged in some of the accounts through what is described as “structured payments” in tranches of $10,000 each.

Most of the lodgments, effected between 2012 and 2016, were undeclared in Justice Onnoghen’s assets declaration form, the sources claimed, pleading not to be named because of the “sensitivity” of the investigation.

The Nigerian Financial Intelligence Unit (NFIU) has restricted the operation of five accounts with about $3million

The accounts in the Standard Chartered Bank are USD No. 870001062650; Euro account No. 93001062686; Pound Sterling A/CNo. 285001062679; e-Saver Savings (Naira) account No. 5001062693; and a Naira A/C No. 0001062667.

Detectives believe that most of the lodgments and transactions are “suspicious”.

The Nation has stumbled on an intelligence report on the CJN’s accounts, which reads in part: “Pattern of structured payments of $10,000.00 each in 2012. For example, a total of $630,000.00 was credited to the accounts using this pattern.

”Similarly structured payments of $10,000.00 amounting to $297,800.00, $50,000.00 and $36,000.00 were deposited in the account in 2013, 2015 and 2016 respectively.

“There was also a credit of $121,116.00 into the account from 2014 to 2016 from Life Friend Plc. The payments were in four installments, of $30,279.00 each. These payments suggest the suspect has investments.

“ A payment at $482,966.00 from Alicia Redemption Pro and shortly after, $800,000.00 was invested in SCB Investment subscription. We are in the process of verifying these transactions;

“Other suspicious transactions in the account are credit of $19,764.00 from Pur of Noble and seven (7) payments of $3,250.00, each amounting to $22,750.00 from Lloyds TSB.

On the pound sterling (GBP), the investigative team discovered “a self- transfer of £40,268.40 into the account on May 31 2016.”

“There were also self-deposits by the suspect of £49,760.00 from July 2015 to September, 2016

but the balance as at September 30, 2016 was £108,348.00,” the report added.

Regarding the Naira account, the report said: “The following highlights some of the suspicious activities in the account: A transfer of N41,262.000.00 ($260,000) was made from the dollar account. The money was used to make payment of N41million to Ad hoc Committee on the Sale of Federal Government Houses, suggesting that he bought a property with proceeds of the transfer;

“The only other significant transactions in the accounts are six (6) structured cash payments of N500,000.00 each and one payment of N700,000.00 amounting to N3.7mlllion from November, 2013 to August, 2016.

All the transactions, sources said, are being investigated whether or not they violated the “Revised Code of Conduct for Judicial Officers of the Federal Republic of Nigeria” which was put in place by the National Judicial Council.

Sections 7 and 13(4and5) of the Code of Conduct deal with financial interests.

Section 7 reads: “7.1 A Judge shall inform himself or herself about his or her personal and fiduciary financial interests and shall make reasonable efforts to be informed about the financial interests of members of the Judge’s family in respect of matters for adjudication before him.

“7.2 If it appears in respect of a matter before him or her, that the Judge, or a member of the Judge’s family or other person in respect of which the Judge is in a fiduciary relationship, is likely to benefit financially, the Judge has no alternative but to withdraw from the case.

“7.3 For the purpose of this rule, “Financial interest” includes ownership of a legal or equitable interest, however small, or a relationship as director, advisor, or other active participants in the affairs of an institution or organization. The following are not to be regarded as financial interests:

The proprietary interest of a policy holder in a mutual insurance company, unless the outcome of any proceeding could substantially affect the value of the interest.

Ownership of government securities unless if the outcome of any proceeding could substantially affect the value of the security.

“For the purpose of the Rules contained in this Code –

(a) “fiduciary” includes such relationships as executor, administrator, trustee and guardian;

(b) “financial interest” means ownership in a substantial manner of a legal or equitable interest, or a relationship as director, adviser or other active participation in the affairs of a party except that:

(i) ownership in a mutual or common investment fund which holds securities, unless the Judicial Officer participates in the management of the fund;

(ii) an officer in an educational, religious, charitable or civil organization is not a “financial interest” in securities held by the organization;

(iii) the proprietary interest of a policy holder in a mutual savings’ society or similar proprietary interest, is a “financial interest” in the organization only if the outcome of the proceedings could substantially affect the value of the interest; and

(iv) ownership of government securities is a “financial interest” in the issues only if the outcome of the proceedings could substantially affect the value of the securities.”

Section 13.4 and 5 deal with Business and Financial Activities of judges.

Section 13. 4 says: (i) A Judicial Officer may own investments and real property PROVIDED that in the management of his investments, he shall not serve as an officer, director, manager, general partner, adviser or employee of any business entity.

(ii) Otherwise permissible investment or business activities are prohibited if they:

(a) Tend to reflect adversely on judicial impartiality,

(b) Interfere with the proper performance of judicial duties,

(c) Exploit the judicial position; or

(d) Involve the Judicial Officer in frequent transactions with legal practitioners or with people likely to come before the Judicial Officer’s court.

13.5 Acceptance of Gifts

A Judicial Officer and members of his family shall neither ask for nor accept any gift, bequest, favour or loan on account of anything done or omitted to be done by him in the discharge of his duties.

A Judicial Officer is, however, permitted to accept:

(i) Personal gifts or benefits from relatives or personal friends to such extent and on such occasions as are recognized by custom.

(ii) Books supplied by publishers on a complimentary basis.

(iii) A loan from lending institution in its regular course of business on the same terms generally available to people who are not Judicial Officers;

(iv) A scholarship or fellowship awarded on the same terms applied to other applicants.”


http://thenationonlineng.net/cash-found-cjn-onnoghens-accounts/

rusher14:
Do you really think a strong case would work when the judge gets alert?

actually I don't.

Yankee101:
You still won't win this election Buhari

I sincerely don't think 800k is too large for the CJN to make by himself. Remember they can pay themselves independent estacodes like the National Assembly and Executives do

Ordinary Buhari aides were paid $1k per night for 100 days in London. That's $100'000 in one year besides salaries and allowances. Why can't CJN make that?


https://www.nairaland.com/3992721/buharis-aides-london-paid-1000

But he got all these before he became CJN.

new2012:
Solely because the Government is useless.. Should they have full evidence on this man, follow the procedures and have him prosecuted. Why the media trial? So they were investigating when they rush to CCB in an attempt to remove him quickly, who does that? If you have all the evidences and they're valid, even the man will prosecute himself. He'll be ashamed to challenge it in court. But all their interest is media trial.. How can the government be prosecuting someone in the media?

After the media trial and you go to court, why won't the government loose? Financial records are confidential records, you have access to them because you're security agency, yet you publish same in the media-how foolish! If he even sue the executive, including the EFCC, he will win outrightly for the leak which is indeed malicious. You do know that asset declaration are classified too? How come a third party, an NGO had access, it has to be via the govt.. That in itself is an evidence in court.. See if this case go to a regular court anywhere in the world, the government will loose and get fined heavily. The government is filled with useless and senseless people.

Typical example, the govt had evidence against Akpabio, they show the guy and he fell in line, they didn't publish it. If they did same to the CJN he'll step down quickly or get prosecuted, not media gibberish..


What a foolish set of individual the EFCC must be filled with. I know someone who was arrested by EFCC for cyber crime and was under investigation, the EFCC agent investigating read Business Admin and was asking what an IP is. Shame!

The media foreshore millions. what happened to it? Who owns it? You can't see over 20 million dollars that has no owner and the govt isn't entirely dumb not to know the owner, what of the airport millions, who owns it?

Donald Trump illegal deals was exposed in the media too.

The govt should stop the media trial jare.
If he is found wanting, follow due process and remove him.

sweetgala:
It is a lie that high court judges get £20k yearly for medical. Stop pulling phantom numbers our if the air. Judges are poorly paid in Nigeria and only during Jonathan's regime did they do something about it. The recent dispensation of justice act also resolved some financial issues in the judiciary.

Oga, you sound so sure of yourself, are you a judge?
I'm quoting Justice Ademola of FHC Abuja.
Cos that was what he said in defense of the foreign currency found in his house when it was raided and that they pay them the money in cash.

dokyOloye:
Brown toothed Thiefnuubu's the nation newspaper doing the hatchet job again.
High court judges get £20k yearly for their medical vacation,imagine how much a supreme court judge who has been a judge for at least 20years will get?
This is apart from salaries,other allowances like wardrobe, housing,etc.
If you think it is outrageous, Google how many hundred millions Ayesha Buhari gets for her cooking utensils yearly.
Judges are paid well all over the world to shield them from the temptation of taking bribes.

how much are they paying u

Do you arraign him before investigations or after?

This is how the government loses cases all the time.

PaChukwudi44:
So he was also supposed to declare his account history? Its like you didn't understand the report.The balance in the accounts were declared in 2016.There are just blabbing about his accounts history

But did he declare those funds in 2016? You think wrong done years back can't be looked into?

IDUNMOTA:
Donald Trump illegal deals was exposed in the media too.

Not by muller

danot1030:
If they like they vote Buhari and if they like they don't vote Buhari but as long Buhari is in power corruption will not be allowed

Have you heard of Babachir Lawal? He is today appointed a member of Buhari presidential campaign, to mention just one of the many corrupt people under Buhari. Maybe, you don't know Akpabio, Ganduje, Obanikoro, etc are all in APC.

Selective amnesia is another sign of dementia.

What do you want to see there before, paper or nylon?.

obembet:
Even though I don't like buhari leadership style, but Judiciary cause Nigeria problem. If u still #1000, this people will give u 20yrs in jail but steal #2bilion, give them #500m, they will set u dress and ask u to pay a fine of #10000. If we have good judiciary, obanikori, omishore, fayose, akpabio, amechi, ibb, aregbe, tinubu, obj etc are suppose to spend the life in prison.

I so much respect people who reason out of the political,social,ethnic or religious divide.
If the opposition also has credible evidence against anyone they can as well go to court.
Not defending people that have practically destroyed the nation.The man has been sitting on peoples' cases for God knows how long.
If he feels he has done no wrong he should be free and proud to explain himself.
I still find it absurd how someone will forget to declare such amount of money.
I doubt if dangote or adenuga will forget such.

olujastro:
CJN controlling millions of dollars. Politicians dey pay sha.

2015 elections in Rivers, AkwaIbom and Abia annulled by the Election petition tribunal and Court of Appeal, but judged to be free and fair by the Supreme Court of Corruption.
Wike and Co don pay.

Na why Wike and South South governors dey defend Onnoghen as if he's a member of PDP.

PDP has corrupted the entire arms of govt in Nigeria. From National Assembly(ghana must go era) to Civil service to Judiciary.
When Justice Ayo Salami exposed their rigging in 2007 and caused PDP to lose Edo, Ekiti, Ondo and Osun states, they forced him out of office and amended the law to force guber polls petition to reach supreme court.

Almost everything wrong with Nigeria today is PDP, including the corrupted citizens that come out to defend corruption.

Afonja

post=75023450:
[s]
CJN CORRUPTION SAGA RAVES ON
Interesting times are here.
A civil servant, who has no other business.
Has not touched his salary for years.
He has forgotten $3m in account.
Bought 55 houses.
See, if CJN does not go quietly, he will pull the roof down on our justice system.
The Body of Benchers, the NBA and COBAN, should plead with him to have mercy on them.
AGF Malami is bent on opening books.
What we see from here is not good for the sight.
Believe us, those black coats and suits are about to go darker!

A corrupt judge is worse than a madman with a knife running amok in the marketplace."
~Justice Oputa

God bless you for this great words.
It's a shame to see some so called youths supporting criminals.

CJN, LAWYERS AND US
A Chief Justice That Has Always Lived Above His Means And Now, Nemesis By Annie Orji The Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Walter Onnoghen is facing the battle of his political carreer. He was one of the judges indicted for corruption and recommended for dismissal [b] by the the Justice Kayode Eso Panel set up by the Sani Abacha military regime to probe incessant allegations of judicial corruption in 1994. Justice Onnoghen was then a judge in the Cross River State high court where he was accused of selling justice to the highest bidder. Luckily for Justice Onnoghen he had been promoted to the Court of Appeal when the implementation of the recommendation of the Eso Panel was carried out against only judges of high courts across the country. As the leopard never changes its colour Justice Onnoghen has continued with corrupt practices. The judge has not been able to account for the millions of Naira, Pounds Sterling, Dollars and Euros in his bank accounts. The money is so much for a serving judge that Justice Onnoghen did not declare some of his bank accounts as required by law. Hence, the Chief Justice was charged with failure to false declaration and failure to declare his assets containing hundreds of over $3 million of dollars before the Code of Conduct Tribunal last [/b] week. It has also been alleged that for 18 months the Chief Justice did not withdraw from his salary account, suggesting that he was spending bribe money. Although the petition was received by the Code of Conduct from an ex aide of President Buhari on January 9, 2019. A team of officials from the Code of Conduct Bureau visited the Chief Justice on January 10. When confronted with the fact that he did not declare his assets as stipulated as stipulated by the Constitution the Chief Justice said that he "forgot" to have done so. He therefore pleaded for the "understanding and cooperation" of the Code of Conduct Bureau officials. The official promised to cooperate but asked the Chief Justice to write a statement under caution. He did so in his own handwriting where he admitted that he "forgot" to declare his assets. Based on the admission by the Chief Justice that he did not declare his assets the Bureau quickly prepared a charge and filed it before the Code of Conduct Tribunal on January 11. The Tribunal fixed the case for the arraignment of the Chief Justice for January 15. To avoid the disgrace of being arraigned at the Tribunal the Chief Justice was advised to stay away from the proceedings of the Tribunal which he did. In a counter move, the legal team of the Chief Justice informed the Tribunal that their client had not been served with the charge sheet. The case was adjourned to January 22 for hearing after which proper service would have been effected on the Chief Justice. Meanwhile, a case filed on Monday, January 15 at the federal high court to stop the trial of the Chief Justice through two NGOs were assigned to a judge, Justice N. E. Maha, a newly appointed judge in the court. We have confirmed that Justice Maha is very close to the Chief Justice as a former staff in the office of the Legal Practioners Privileges Committee located in the Supreme Court complex in Abuja. The Committee is headed by the Chief Justice. Within minutes of receiving the file of the new suit it was heard by Justice Maha who quickly granted a motion ex parte in the case. The judge restrained the Code of Conduct Tribunal from proceeding to hear the charge against the Chief Justice until the hearing of the motion on notice. Not sure that the order of Justice Maha was sufficient to shield him from prosecution before the Code of Conduct Tribunal the Chief Justice planned another strategy. He held a meeting with Justice Babatunde Adejumo, the President of the National Industrial Court whose wife, Justice Abimbola Adejumo had delivered the judgment in the case of Nganjiwa v Federal Republic of Nigeria which ruled that all corruption cases involving judges should be reported to the National Judicial Council which is headed by the Chief Justice. The judgment was delivered to prevent the arrest and prosecution of judges as was witnessed in 2016 when about 10 judges were arrested and charged to court for corruption. At the end of the meeting which held in Abuja last Sunday the embattled Chief Justice asked Justice Adejumo to get an order to prevent his arrest by the police, efcc or icpc. A case was filed the following day at the National Industrial Court . It was hurriedly assigned to Justice Sanusi Kano by Justice Adejumo. The case was heard by Justice who granted an order restraining the Police from arresting the Chief Justice pending the hearing and determination of the motion on notice. The judge also stopped the trial of the Chief Justice by the Code of Conduct Tribunal. Lawyers and judges are asking if the Chief Justice has become an employee to have his case decided at the National Industrial Court established to hear only trade union and labour matters. In a desperate move to save Chief Justice Walter Onnoghen from prosecution and compulsory retirement the Body of SenIor Advocates of Nigeria (BOSAN) had called an emergency meeting of Senior Advocates of Nigeria to hold at the Lagos campus of the Nigerian Law School at 11 am on Saturday, 19th day of January 2019. But the communique of the meeting was prepared in advance and surreptitiously passed to the secretariat of the body for adoption at the meeting. The meeting was poorly attended by senior advocates. [b]But the few members of the body who attended the meeting kicked against the move to use the BOSAN to condemn the trial of the Chief Justice whose conduct was criticised at the meeting by many senior advocates. It was the view of the majority of those who attended the meeting that while the procedure adopted by the Executive in charging the Chief Justice before the Code of Conduct Tribunal is procedurally wrong they wondered when forgetfulness became a defence to a criminal offence in Nigeria. The suggestion that the N1.4 billion money laundering charge filed against the NBA president, Mr. Paul Usoro SAN by the efcc be tabled for discussion was unanimously rejected by members of BOSAN. It was a very somber meeting as members expressed concern over the damage being done to the reputation of the legal profession by senior judges and lawyers. In order not to be accused of covering the Chief Justice who cannot explain the sources of the local and foreign currencies in his declared and undeclared bank accoun[/b]ts the BOSAN dropped the prepared communique and issued another one which tactically called for caution by all the parties concerned. The communique was signed by Professor Ben Nwabueze SAN and Seyi Sowemimo SAN, the Chairman and Secretary respectively of BOSAN. Even though the federal government has denied the reported plan to arrest the Chief Justice, the National Financial Intelligence Unit has frozen his accounts under the Presidential Executive Order No 6 of 2018. An application has already been filed in court to have the Chief Justice removed from office since he has ignored the call of the federal government to call it quits. [/s]

Kindly shut up,thank you.

Tetehjewels:
Not when it is directly about false asset declaration which is under the Jurisdiction of the CCB.

What part of this don't you understand?

Bros go and read the judgment of the lagos division of the appeal court.Judicial officers cannot be tried for any offence including murder without recourse to the NJC

Naajjii:
But did he declare those funds in 2016? You think wrong done years back can't be looked into?

So he was supposed to declare his account history? Are his account history assets? No wonder the stupid government keeps losing cases

PaChukwudi44:
All this mumu investigators why not conclude your investigations before going to the media.There is nothing wrong with the CJN having investments.In fact judges are supposed to invest so as not to fall to temptation by accepting bribes.

All this media trial is hogwash.If you think you have a smoking gun then take it to the NJC.

My tears are for the southerners. A SAN for over 20 years and they expect him to be poor.

Meanwhile, a soldier like Buratai worth over $200M and they call it personal savings.

I blame the Southerners.

post=75023450:
[s]
CJN CORRUPTION SAGA RAVES ON
Interesting times are here.
A civil servant, who has no other business.
Has not touched his salary for years.
He has forgotten $3m in account.
Bought 55 houses.
See, if CJN does not go quietly, he will pull the roof down on our justice system.
The Body of Benchers, the NBA and COBAN, should plead with him to have mercy on them.
AGF Malami is bent on opening books.
What we see from here is not good for the sight.
Believe us, those black coats and suits are about to go darker!

A corrupt judge is worse than a madman with a knife running amok in the marketplace."
~Justice Oputa

God bless you for this great words.
It's a shame to see some so called youths supporting criminals.

CJN, LAWYERS AND US
A Chief Justice That Has Always Lived Above His Means And Now, Nemesis By Annie Orji The Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Walter Onnoghen is facing the battle of his political carreer. He was one of the judges indicted for corruption and recommended for dismissal [b] by the the Justice Kayode Eso Panel set up by the Sani Abacha military regime to probe incessant allegations of judicial corruption in 1994. Justice Onnoghen was then a judge in the Cross River State high court where he was accused of selling justice to the highest bidder. Luckily for Justice Onnoghen he had been promoted to the Court of Appeal when the implementation of the recommendation of the Eso Panel was carried out against only judges of high courts across the country. As the leopard never changes its colour Justice Onnoghen has continued with corrupt practices. The judge has not been able to account for the millions of Naira, Pounds Sterling, Dollars and Euros in his bank accounts. The money is so much for a serving judge that Justice Onnoghen did not declare some of his bank accounts as required by law. Hence, the Chief Justice was charged with failure to false declaration and failure to declare his assets containing hundreds of over $3 million of dollars before the Code of Conduct Tribunal last [/b] week. It has also been alleged that for 18 months the Chief Justice did not withdraw from his salary account, suggesting that he was spending bribe money. Although the petition was received by the Code of Conduct from an ex aide of President Buhari on January 9, 2019. A team of officials from the Code of Conduct Bureau visited the Chief Justice on January 10. When confronted with the fact that he did not declare his assets as stipulated as stipulated by the Constitution the Chief Justice said that he "forgot" to have done so. He therefore pleaded for the "understanding and cooperation" of the Code of Conduct Bureau officials. The official promised to cooperate but asked the Chief Justice to write a statement under caution. He did so in his own handwriting where he admitted that he "forgot" to declare his assets. Based on the admission by the Chief Justice that he did not declare his assets the Bureau quickly prepared a charge and filed it before the Code of Conduct Tribunal on January 11. The Tribunal fixed the case for the arraignment of the Chief Justice for January 15. To avoid the disgrace of being arraigned at the Tribunal the Chief Justice was advised to stay away from the proceedings of the Tribunal which he did. In a counter move, the legal team of the Chief Justice informed the Tribunal that their client had not been served with the charge sheet. The case was adjourned to January 22 for hearing after which proper service would have been effected on the Chief Justice. Meanwhile, a case filed on Monday, January 15 at the federal high court to stop the trial of the Chief Justice through two NGOs were assigned to a judge, Justice N. E. Maha, a newly appointed judge in the court. We have confirmed that Justice Maha is very close to the Chief Justice as a former staff in the office of the Legal Practioners Privileges Committee located in the Supreme Court complex in Abuja. The Committee is headed by the Chief Justice. Within minutes of receiving the file of the new suit it was heard by Justice Maha who quickly granted a motion ex parte in the case. The judge restrained the Code of Conduct Tribunal from proceeding to hear the charge against the Chief Justice until the hearing of the motion on notice. Not sure that the order of Justice Maha was sufficient to shield him from prosecution before the Code of Conduct Tribunal the Chief Justice planned another strategy. He held a meeting with Justice Babatunde Adejumo, the President of the National Industrial Court whose wife, Justice Abimbola Adejumo had delivered the judgment in the case of Nganjiwa v Federal Republic of Nigeria which ruled that all corruption cases involving judges should be reported to the National Judicial Council which is headed by the Chief Justice. The judgment was delivered to prevent the arrest and prosecution of judges as was witnessed in 2016 when about 10 judges were arrested and charged to court for corruption. At the end of the meeting which held in Abuja last Sunday the embattled Chief Justice asked Justice Adejumo to get an order to prevent his arrest by the police, efcc or icpc. A case was filed the following day at the National Industrial Court . It was hurriedly assigned to Justice Sanusi Kano by Justice Adejumo. The case was heard by Justice who granted an order restraining the Police from arresting the Chief Justice pending the hearing and determination of the motion on notice. The judge also stopped the trial of the Chief Justice by the Code of Conduct Tribunal. Lawyers and judges are asking if the Chief Justice has become an employee to have his case decided at the National Industrial Court established to hear only trade union and labour matters. In a desperate move to save Chief Justice Walter Onnoghen from prosecution and compulsory retirement the Body of SenIor Advocates of Nigeria (BOSAN) had called an emergency meeting of Senior Advocates of Nigeria to hold at the Lagos campus of the Nigerian Law School at 11 am on Saturday, 19th day of January 2019. But the communique of the meeting was prepared in advance and surreptitiously passed to the secretariat of the body for adoption at the meeting. The meeting was poorly attended by senior advocates. [b]But the few members of the body who attended the meeting kicked against the move to use the BOSAN to condemn the trial of the Chief Justice whose conduct was criticised at the meeting by many senior advocates. It was the view of the majority of those who attended the meeting that while the procedure adopted by the Executive in charging the Chief Justice before the Code of Conduct Tribunal is procedurally wrong they wondered when forgetfulness became a defence to a criminal offence in Nigeria. The suggestion that the N1.4 billion money laundering charge filed against the NBA president, Mr. Paul Usoro SAN by the efcc be tabled for discussion was unanimously rejected by members of BOSAN. It was a very somber meeting as members expressed concern over the damage being done to the reputation of the legal profession by senior judges and lawyers. In order not to be accused of covering the Chief Justice who cannot explain the sources of the local and foreign currencies in his declared and undeclared bank accoun[/b]ts the BOSAN dropped the prepared communique and issued another one which tactically called for caution by all the parties concerned. The communique was signed by Professor Ben Nwabueze SAN and Seyi Sowemimo SAN, the Chairman and Secretary respectively of BOSAN. Even though the federal government has denied the reported plan to arrest the Chief Justice, the National Financial Intelligence Unit has frozen his accounts under the Presidential Executive Order No 6 of 2018. An application has already been filed in court to have the Chief Justice removed from office since he has ignored the call of the federal government to call it quits.

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Mental,Adeosun was completely naeked,her damm cat was outta the bag and she 4kn knew that. She only quickly chickened out in time to avoid a full blown disgrace. If she had a good name as you mentally put it,damm sure it woudda stood out for her. The reverend Yoruba elders,youths and your God,jagajagbantis,knew that.
So Mallam,your lame attempt to further slam our heads in the south didn't work. Try again.....this time apply sense


Lzaa immhotep

docadams:
You goofed again. Your comment just shows how little your knowledge is of the subject matter. Why are you averse to reading and objective analysis? The article contains answers to your posers but you will not read to decipher.

The article clearly says a judge is allowed to have investments so kini big deal?

PaChukwudi44:
Sorry Onnoggen is not responsible for your poverty.Everyone cannot be financially dumb like Buhari witg only 50 cows from 1980 to 2015

Very correct.
What I see is an average man's transaction history.
Even our nairaland crypto resellers transact way above that on daily basis..

Cc. Sirambassador

olujastro:
CJN controlling millions of dollars. Politicians dey pay sha.

2015 elections in Rivers, AkwaIbom and Abia annulled by the Election petition tribunal and Court of Appeal, but judged to be free and fair by the Supreme Court of Corruption.
Wike and Co don pay.

Na why Wike and South South governors dey defend Onnoghen as if he's a member of PDP.

PDP has corrupted the entire arms of govt in Nigeria. From National Assembly(ghana must go era) to Civil service to Judiciary.
When Justice Ayo Salami exposed their rigging in 2007 and caused PDP to lose Edo, Ekiti, Ondo and Osun states, they forced him out of office and amended the law to force guber polls petition to reach supreme court.

Almost everything wrong with Nigeria today is PDP, including the corrupted citizens that come out to defend corruption.

How I wish you think like think like this when properties worth $200M was traced to Buratai in Dubai. A common soldier you people said it was his personal savings.

Ola Sa'ad own wasn't a personal saving. Danbazau own was a personal saving. Southerners think they are educated. But we are Doomed. Think and meditate after reading this.