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The Buhari Media Organisation (BMO) said on
Saturday that the decision of
President Muhammadu Buhari to suspend the
Chief Justice of Nigeria, Walter Onnoghen,
signifies a conscious shift of policy to fast track
the fight against corruption in the country.
It said the suspended CJN had built a hedge
around himself to continue in office in spite of his
written admission of hiding several domiciliary
accounts with suspicious lodgements of funds
believed to be proceeds of corruption.
In a statement signed by its Chairman, Niyi
Akinsiju and Secretary, Cassidy Madueke, BMO
said that President Buhari had no alternative but
to respect a valid suspension order issued by the
Code of Conduct Tribunal pending final
determination of the case against Justice
Onnoghen.
It said further that “Resignation was the only
meaningful option for the suspended Chief
Justice. He is indeed, a confessed felon after
claiming in one breadth to have made a mistake
and also forgot to have properly declared his
assets in line with provisions of the Code of
Conduct Bureau for public officials when
confronted by investigators.
“Just like the President said in his speech at the
swearing in of the Acting CJN, someone with a
moral authority so wounded by serious charges of
corruption by his own written admission ought to
have stepped down on his own volition.
“But in the character of tainted high office holders
in Nigeria, Justice Onnoghen preferred to lash on
to the rigmarole of legal technicalities as well as
a desperately shallow opposition party that is on
the lookout for anything to use to cast aspersions
on President Buhari and the All Progressives
Congress (APC) to shore up its flagging campaign
and an apparent failed effort to market a
presidential candidate with questionable moral
standing.
“The suspended CJN forgot, as usual, that he
once ruled on a case in his capacity of a Supreme
Court judge that the Code of Conduct Tribunal
has the exclusive jurisdiction to deal with any
violation of provisions of the Code of Conduct
Bureau notwithstanding the status of the public
officer in question.”
The group maintained that the CJN’s suspension
was in line with the President’s vow to respect
the rule of law as demonstrated in this case by
the order issued by the Tribunal on January 23.
It said: “President Buhari’s action cannot be said
to be unilateral because it was based on the
order of a duly constituted tribunal and it will
pave way for the case against the suspended CJN
to be heard on merit rather than a situation
where it would be stalled by unnecessary judicial
subterfuge which are associated with high profile
cases in Nigeria.
“We consider the indefinite postponement of the
statutory meeting of the Nigerian Judicial Council
NJC by Justice Onnoghen as one of those
unbridled manipulation of the judicial process.
The postponement of the NJC meeting is a
brazen abuse of office by Justice Onnoghen to
prevent the other members of the Council from
intervening in the Asset Declaration scandal
which may either lead to his being suspended or
being asked to recuse himself while the other
members take a second look at the implication of
the grave corruption allegation hanging on the
head of the country’s judiciary.
“So, from whichever angle one looks at it, it
would be difficult to fault the President’s action
with all the facts at his disposal as well as the
CCT suspension order”
While asking Nigerians to rally around the
President at this critical time and ignore attempts
by the opposition Peoples Democratic Party
(PDP) and its Presidential candidate to obfuscate
the issue with a view to scoring political points, it
said “no one should be surprised that Atiku and
his corruption-loving party would jump into the
fray in a public show of defence of the suspended
Chief Justice as it is in line with their tendencies
to defend the worst forms of value erosion that
continue to assail our national sensitivity in
recent times. It tells you all you need to know
about a Presidential candidate that has vowed to
enrich his friends obviously through corrupt
means if (God forbids) he becomes President.
“But there is no way President Buhari, with his
disdain for corrupt acts, would pretend that all is
well in a situation where the head of the nation’s
judiciary would have undeclared sums of money
running into millions of dollars in accounts hidden
from public scrutiny.
“We urge Nigerians across divides to show
support and solidarity with the President in his
bid to fast track the fight against corruption no
matter whose ox is gored”.
Source: thenationonlineng.net/suspension-of-onnoghen-aimed-at-fast-tracking-fight-against-corruption-says-bmo/

Truevine:The Buhari Media Organisation (BMO) said on
Saturday that the decision of
President Muhammadu Buhari to suspend the
Chief Justice of Nigeria, Walter Onnoghen,
signifies a conscious shift of policy to fast track
the fight against corruption in the country.
It said the suspended CJN had built a hedge
around himself to continue in office in spite of his
written admission of hiding several domiciliary
accounts with suspicious lodgements of funds
believed to be proceeds of corruption.
In a statement signed by its Chairman, Niyi
Akinsiju and Secretary, Cassidy Madueke, BMO
said that President Buhari had no alternative but
to respect a valid suspension order issued by the
Code of Conduct Tribunal pending final
determination of the case against Justice
Onnoghen.
It said further that “Resignation was the only
meaningful option for the suspended Chief
Justice. He is indeed, a confessed felon after
claiming in one breadth to have made a mistake
and also forgot to have properly declared his
assets in line with provisions of the Code of
Conduct Bureau for public officials when
confronted by investigators.
“Just like the President said in his speech at the
swearing in of the Acting CJN, someone with a
moral authority so wounded by serious charges of
corruption by his own written admission ought to
have stepped down on his own volition.
“But in the character of tainted high office holders
in Nigeria, Justice Onnoghen preferred to lash on
to the rigmarole of legal technicalities as well as
a desperately shallow opposition party that is on
the lookout for anything to use to cast aspersions
on President Buhari and the All Progressives
Congress (APC) to shore up its flagging campaign
and an apparent failed effort to market a
presidential candidate with questionable moral
standing.
“The suspended CJN forgot, as usual, that he
once ruled on a case in his capacity of a Supreme
Court judge that the Code of Conduct Tribunal
has the exclusive jurisdiction to deal with any
violation of provisions of the Code of Conduct
Bureau notwithstanding the status of the public
officer in question.”
The group maintained that the CJN’s suspension
was in line with the President’s vow to respect
the rule of law as demonstrated in this case by
the order issued by the Tribunal on January 23.
It said: “President Buhari’s action cannot be said
to be unilateral because it was based on the
order of a duly constituted tribunal and it will
pave way for the case against the suspended CJN
to be heard on merit rather than a situation
where it would be stalled by unnecessary judicial
subterfuge which are associated with high profile
cases in Nigeria.
“We consider the indefinite postponement of the
statutory meeting of the Nigerian Judicial Council
NJC by Justice Onnoghen as one of those
unbridled manipulation of the judicial process.
The postponement of the NJC meeting is a
brazen abuse of office by Justice Onnoghen to
prevent the other members of the Council from
intervening in the Asset Declaration scandal
which may either lead to his being suspended or
being asked to recuse himself while the other
members take a second look at the implication of
the grave corruption allegation hanging on the
head of the country’s judiciary.
“So, from whichever angle one looks at it, it
would be difficult to fault the President’s action
with all the facts at his disposal as well as the
CCT suspension order”
While asking Nigerians to rally around the
President at this critical time and ignore attempts
by the opposition Peoples Democratic Party
(PDP) and its Presidential candidate to obfuscate
the issue with a view to scoring political points, it
said “no one should be surprised that Atiku and
his corruption-loving party would jump into the
fray in a public show of defence of the suspended
Chief Justice as it is in line with their tendencies
to defend the worst forms of value erosion that
continue to assail our national sensitivity in
recent times. It tells you all you need to know
about a Presidential candidate that has vowed to
enrich his friends obviously through corrupt
means if (God forbids) he becomes President.
“But there is no way President Buhari, with his
disdain for corrupt acts, would pretend that all is
well in a situation where the head of the nation’s
judiciary would have undeclared sums of money
running into millions of dollars in accounts hidden
from public scrutiny.
“We urge Nigerians across divides to show
support and solidarity with the President in his
bid to fast track the fight against corruption no
matter whose ox is gored”.
Source: thenationonlineng.net/suspension-of-onnoghen-aimed-at-fast-tracking-fight-against-corruption-says-bmo/

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