THE AUTHORITY NEWSPAPERS WRITES CODE OF CONDUCT TRIBUNAL BOSS
Asks: What is different between Bola Tinubu, others’ trial and Saraki’s?


20th October, 2015

The Honourable Chairman
Code of Conduct Tribunal
Jabi, Abuja.

Mr Chairman,
TRIAL OF SENATE PRESIDENT BUKOLA SARAKI AND MATTERS ARISING
The board of Editors of The Authority newspapers have been following the drama generated by the trial by your tribunal of Senate President Bukola Saraki.
It is common knowledge that before your Bureau had on the strength of petitions investigated at least four governors and senators who served between 1999 and 2007. They include Governors Bola Tinubu (Lagos), James Ibori (Delta), Late Adebayo Adefarati (Ondo), and Abubakar Audu (Kogi). On January 3, 2003, your predecessor in office, Captain E.E. Nsa (Rtd) wrote the then governor of Ondo State, Chief Adebayo Adefarati saying it received a “well-packaged petition” on the governor’s alleged abuse of office dated 19th November 2002. Till date, nothing was heard of the “well-packaged petition.”
In June 2007, your bureau charged Alhaji Abubakar Audu, a former governor of Kogi State on a six-count charge of corruption, abuse of office, conversion of public property to personal and family use. In early 2011, your bureau equally arraigned a former governor of Lagos State, Senator Ahmed Bola on a three-count charge of operating various foreign accounts between 1999 and 2007. On 13th December 2007, the CCB withdrew all the 19 charges levelled against a former governor of Bayelsa State, Chief Dieprieye Alamieyeseigha (now deceased) two years earlier, on November 28, 2006.
It is instructive to note that all the former governors were later cleared by the CCT.
On November 19, 2009, your bureau declared Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, then immediate past chairman of Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) wanted. About six months later, the CCT withdrew all charges against the former EFCC boss.
While the board of editors of The Authority cannot fathom why ALL the aforementioned were charged and later cleared by your honourable Bureau, a common trend, however, in all the aforelisted cases was that the accused persons were not in the good books of the government of the day.
The board of editors of The Authority newspapers is doing a detailed report of the activities of your Bureau on the trial of afore-mentioned personalities vis-a-vis the ongoing trial of Senate President Bukola Saraki. We wish to know from Your Lordship if there is any difference between the ongoing trial of Senate President Bukola Saraki and that of the discharged former governors Bola Tinubu, Attah, Audu, Adefarati, and former EFCC boss Nuhu Ribadu, among others.
Your Lordship’s reaction is particularly important when placed beside the allegations in some quarters that your Bureau is being blackmailed into embarrassing the Senate President in exchange for EFCC discontinuing investigation on the N10 million bribe Your Lordship allegedly demanded from Mr. Taiwo Rasheed, a retired comptroller of Customs, who was being prosecuted by your tribunal for failing to declare his assets while in office, among other issues.

THE AUTHORITY NEWSPAPERS WRITES CODE OF CONDUCT TRIBUNAL BOSShe board of editors would appreciate a timely response from Your Lordship office to enable us meet our production deadline.
Sincerely yours,
Chuks Akunna
Executive Director

For what?

is this news paper editor just came to Nigeria ni? or he doesn't understand the world change

This paper may not last.

ademega:
is this news paper editor just came to Nigeria ni? or he doesn't understand the world change

It's Ifeanyi Ubah's publication....

Ifeanyi Ubah of TAN

Ifeanyi Ubah of DPK subsidy capital oil..

That info is all that is needed to know the slant of opinions to be expected.

. Ifeanyi Uba fighting hard to get contract through Saraki....... How are the mighty struggling......




On another note, if the CCT chair deny it he should counter it.... Pursuing Saraki as if this is not democracy. Or when did it turn to partyocracy.

God bless the editorial board of this newspaper. Somebody needs to stop playing to the gallery and start asking questions. Enough of all these charade called media reportage in Nigeria.

another igbotic paper like sun out to spin news directly from their mind.

SUCONANA:

THE AUTHORITY NEWSPAPERS WRITES CODE OF CONDUCT TRIBUNAL BOSS
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THE AUTHORITY NEWSPAPERS WRITES CODE OF CONDUCT TRIBUNAL BOSShe board of editors would appreciate a timely response from Your Lordship office to enable us meet our production deadline.
Sincerely yours,
Chuks Akunna
Executive Director

Pure rubbish. What sort of newspaper expect a tribunal or court to be called into an inane debate over legal issues? So perhaps we had been doing it wrong in the past we should not improve on it? Is this another all-thieves-must-be-prosecuted-at-the-same-time or we-all-corrupt nonsense?

If you need information on their past decisions visit their library or archives - that is why you are journalists.

K

Tinubu under declared his assets while saraki 'over-declared'.

Let's say Tinubu for example owns 10 properties and declared 9 . So it's now incumbent on the CCB to notify him , draw his attention to the fact that "mr Tinubu, upon assumption of office, you declared 9 properties instead of 10. Kindly effect the correction by filling another form". It's this failure of CCB to notify Tinubu before arraigning him that led to the collapse of the case as that amount to breach of the tribunal procedure.

Saraki in this case , declared in anticipation of a property he's to acquire after leaving office. NB: Tinubu didn't declare what he did not own, rather , he declared by forgetting to include what was rightfully his before he even became the governor of Lagos state.



You see why saraki's case is different?

I won't blame you(The Authority), you are still a learner.

ademega:
is this news paper editor just came to Nigeria ni? or he doesn't understand the world change

The newspaper is working towards CHANGE.
CHANGE connotes a new wind so I'm with the newspaper on this

This is truly how newspapers with conscience should go about fighting for the common man....no wonder the press are called the 'last hope of the masses'.

If other newspaper outlets are doing thier reporting this same way of Authority newspapers then there will be hope for the common man.Personally,i have no respect for the panel in the first place,it was set up by Obasanjo mainly for the purpose of witch-haunting those that are not his friends.Authority newspapers will surely go far if this tempo is sustained.

BALLOSKI:
Tinubu under declared his assets while saraki 'over-declared'.

Let's say Tinubu for example owns 10 properties and declared 9 . So it's now incumbent on the CCB to notify him , draw his attention to the fact that "mr Tinubu, upon assumption of office, you declared 9 properties instead of 10. Kindly effect the correction by filling another form". It's this failure of CCB to notify Tinubu before arraigning him that led to the collapse of the case as that amount to breach of the tribunal procedure.

Saraki in this case , declared in anticipation of a property he's to acquire after leaving office. NB: Tinubu didn't declare what he did not own, rather , he declared by forgetting to include what was rightfully his before he even became the governor of Lagos state.



You see why saraki's case is different?

You are simply a lair. Why was EL Rufai wants to testify against Saraki. It because he did not declare the asset he El Rufai sold to him when he was FCT minister.
Is this over declaration or under declaration
Please don't confuse pple here.

SUCONANA:
If other newspaper outlets are doing thier reporting this same way of Authority newspapers then[b] there will be hope for the common man[/b].Personally,i have no respect for the panel in the first place,it was set up by Obasanjo mainly for the purpose of witch-haunting those that are not his friends.Authority newspapers will surely go far if this tempo is sustained.

So Saraki is now a common Man? you guys need Biafra as soon as possible jor