Onnoghen: Buhari must extend probe to other judges – SANs

Senior Advocates of Nigeria, SANs, under the aegis of Justice Reform Project, JRP, on Tuesday called on President Muhammadu Buhari to extend corruption probe to other judges.

They said the reported voluntary resignation of Justice Walter Onnoghen should not be the end of the corruption allegations leveled against him.

According to them, given the gravity of the allegations against the suspended Justice Onnoghen and his admission, the law should be made to take its course to show that it respects no one.

The SANs called on Buhari to subject all other judges to the same type of probe that Onnoghen went through, so as to fish out all other judges living above their legitimate means.

In a statement on Tuesday, JRP, which consists of about 20 SANs, said it was important for Buhari to take this step in order to convince Nigerians that Onnoghen’s trial was not a politically-motivated witch-hunt and had no ethnic colouration.

The SANs said the details of the allegations of financial mismanagement which the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission leveled against Onnoghen in the petition it submitted to the National Judicial Council, and Onnoghen’s response to the allegations, “raised significant questions about the financial practices of the Nigerian judiciary and the various heads of courts.”

It, therefore, called on Buhari not to limit the probe to Onnoghen.

“Beyond Honourable Justice W.S.N. Onnoghen, the JRP believes the revelations that have been made in the course of this affair necessitate that urgent steps be taken to identify and sanction all other Nigerian judicial officers who are found to posses inexplicable wealth that cannot be reconciled with their legitimate income or their asset declarations, two of the allegations made against Justice Onnoghen.

“These steps are necessary for a variety of reasons. First, to ensure public confidence in the judiciary and disabuse the notion that all judicial officers in Nigeria are corrupt and that justice is for sale.

“Second, to disabuse the notion that Justice W.SN. Onnoghen’s travails are a mere witch-hunt motivated by ethnic and political interests rather than the result of a genuine concern for sanitising and reforming the Nigerian judiciary.

“Third, to eliminate the suspicion that the executive arm of government is using the information it has access to, by virtue of its control over the apparatus of the state, to take selective action only against those judicial officers that fail to do its bidding.”

According to Punch, the SANs appealed to all lawyers in the country as well as other members of the public not to hesitate to forward to relevant regulatory agencies corruption information on any judge they know.

https://www.pmnewsnigeria.com/2019/04/16/onnoghen-buhari-must-extend-probe-to-other-judges-sans/

Its not Buhari's call. NJC has that duty to perform

Let us start from the SANs first

This is Nigeria, don't be surprised this case will still be going for the next 5 Years
for them to concentrate on important issues they will keep wasting time

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Nothing we no go hear for Naija oh i just hear my neighbor pikin Dey tell he father say he score 220 for jamb but mtn deduct 100mark because he Dey owe them 100 naira. I nearly pass out

I believe the CCB is responsible for that.

Bribery is a two way thing , the SAN's acting all innocent is just a petty show

Buari has ears problems...

That corrupt judge must go to jail to teach others lessons. 7 years jail time is okay to start with.

Buhari will not do it. Even Buhari himself is corrupt.

Only Buhari have the balls to do this! God bless you sir!

I doubt it

they shoould make justice abang the chief justice already

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Let's finished yours first

In a clear case of witch hunting


No extension of probe awaits any judge

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na wa o..our judiciary system

because Onnoghen don resign now them dey talk. Make Una voluntarily forward una asset declaration for EFCC review now so that the system can be sanitised.

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Onnoghen: Buhari must extend probe to other judges – SANs







https://www.pmnewsnigeria.com/2019/04/16/onnoghen-buhari-must-extend-probe-to-other-judges-sans/

The elections are over, the election petition judges will not be constituted by Onnoghen which was what APC wanted, he can keep his 5 houses (one house in his village, one dashed to him by the FG and 3 acquired) which makes him a 'poor' man by Nigerian standards of somebody who has occupied such a position.
Case dismissed!

What if find distasteful is how Buhari had gone about "embarrassing" the select legislative and judiciary persons on his own crusade while TOTALLY turning a blind eye to members of the executives/political associates. We often cry that the legislative is corrupt, but people don't realize that being a federal executive Minister for just a year can/will make you richer than being a senator for eight year. Quote me, please!
Buhari dines and chats with "corruption" right under his nose. But he DELIBERATELY frees you once you don't criticise him.
Osinbajo has turned to something else. That man is no more a pastor. He's now a politician. Once he leaves office, he should not be accorded any respect because he calls himself a pastor. He should be brutally probed and embarrassed like he supported his boss to do to others. As a matter of fact, Buhari and Aishat should also be brutally probed and embarrassed as well. At least, na fight against corruption we dey do.

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Its not Buhari's call. NJC has that duty to perform

EFCC, not NJC, is the body statutorily empowered to investigate financial impropriety.

Blaady bastards thought you fool said he's innocent , Awon oloriburuku ma shanfani, e ni kure gbogbo yin tomo tomo

What about judges who do other abonimable things asides from corruption?

The SANs are 100% correct in all ramifications, this the RIGHT and ONLY thing to do, unless this Onnoghen case would have only been a waste of our precious time. "AGRICODES" indeed!