The court of appeal will on Tuesday hear a suit filed by Walter Onnoghen, former chief justice of Nigeria (CJN), challenging the judgment...
August 19, 2024 10:12 pmThe court of appeal will on Tuesday hear a suit filed by Walter Onnoghen, a former chief justice of Nigeria , challenging the judgment of the Code of Conduct Tribunal that ordered his removal from office in 2019.The former CJN is praying the court to void and set aside the CCT’s judgment delivered against him on April 18, 2019, on various grounds.
He added that only the National Judicial Council has the power to discipline him for misconduct and not the lower tribunal.“The lower tribunal had in the case of FRN V. Sylvester Nwali Nguta, in charge No: CCT/ABJ/01/2017 delivered on 9th January 2018, affirmed the position of the Court in FRN Nganjiwa v. FRN,” he said.
Onnoghen also challenged the order for the confiscation of his assets on the grounds as against the provisions of paragraph three of section 23 of the CCB Act, which only permits the seizure of such properties “if they were acquired by fraud.” Onnoghen on six counts bordering on false asset declaration and ordered that he should be removed from office.The CCT ordered the forfeiture of the money in the five accounts, which the defendant was said to have failed to declare as part of his assets.In its ruling on May 10, 2019, a three-man bench led by Stephen Adah, held that three of the appeals had become academic since the trial had been concluded by the CCT.
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