TheCable reported that” ‘he turned in his resignation letter to President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday evening, a day after the National Judicial Council recommended that he be compulsorily retired for misconduct.’
“The National Judicial Council reconvened today in an Emergency Meeting to consider the Report of the Five-Man Committee constituted to investigate the allegations of misconduct made against Hon. Mr. Justice W. S. N. Onnoghen, GCON and Hon. Mr. Justice I. T. Muhammad, CFR. It will be recalled that the NJC had on February 13, said it was satisfied that corruption allegations against the suspended CJN deserved to be investigated.
Meantime, in his response to the NJC, Onnoghen, queried the competence of two petitions the EFCC lodged against him. For instance, the agency, said its “intelligence report” had indicated that Onnoghen received a Mercedes Benz Gl 450, valued at N7 million, from a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, SAN, Mr. Joe Agi.
It gave names of the other lawyers their fund transfers were traced to accounts of the CJN as Mr. Emeka Etiaba, Dr. Onyechi Ikpeazu, Mr. Eze Duru Iheoma and Mr. Ogunsanya Adewunmi. It alleged that funds that were traced to accounts of the Respondent were suspected to be part of proceeds of illegal transactions.
He insisted that the car was never a gift to sway him to compromise in the discharge of his judicial duties. Onnoghen maintained that it was not tenable that he could collect a car gift to pervert justice in a case that was decided by a five-man panel of Justices that included the immediate past CJN, Justice Mahmud Mohammed and the current Acting CJN, Justice Tanko Muhammad.
To substantiate his claim, Onnoghen, tendered the wedding invitation card in evidence before the NJC, contending that gifts that followed were part and parcel of the customs and traditions of the people he said judicial officers were by law, allowed to receive. More so, Justice Onnoghen noted that whereas the goodwill gesture was extended to his daughter in 2015, the said case was decided by the Supreme Court in 2017.
He said it was the practice of the apex court for judges to be paid estacodes, stressing that no judge was in the position to determine what should be paid to him, though they sign to collect it in cash.
vanguardngr Why d the idiot waste so much time to resign?
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CCT Trial: I deserve an apology from FG, says Onnoghen - Vanguard News NigeriaABUJA----The suspended Chief Justice of Nigeria, CJN, Justice Walter Onnoghen, on Friday, demanded an apology from the Federal Government for dragging him before the Code of Conduct Tribunal, CCT, for trial over his alleged failure to properly declare his assets. You them alone joorrr.... Will the apology ever come, remember people in power don’t apologize in Nigeria it’s a taboo...😂 Oga you get tatoo? 🤷🏻♂️ Sure Sir. You deserve an apology,but just incase they never give one.On behave of all those that caused you and your family pains, I apologized.I hope you use the whole experience you wnt through to fight for the betterment of our judiciary when you eventually return as our CJN🙏
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