CCT members arrive for judgment on Onnoghen | Nairalaw

The three members of the Code of Conduct Tribunal on Thursday
arrived the courtroom 14 minutes behind the 12 pm re-scheduled time
for the judgment on Justice Walter Onnoghen, the erstwhile Chief
Justice of Nigeria.

Onnoghen is being tried before the CCT on charges of breaches of
assets declaration as stipulated in the Code of Conduct for Public
Officers.

The judgment was originally scheduled to be delivered at 9 am on
Thursday.

But as members of the tribunal were being expected to walk into
the courtroom, a court official announced the postponement of the
judgment till noon.

Onnoghen had arrived the premises of the tribunal at 8.40am
ahead of the judgment.

His convoy departed the premises as soon as the news of the
postponement reached him.

He later returned to the CCT about 25 minutes before the 12 pm
re-scheduled for the judgment.

‎At 11.56pm he stepped out his vehicle and walked into the
court, which was just some few metres away from where he
parked.

‎Onnoghen, decked in a grey suit with a white inner shirt, tried
to prove to be unruffled as he managed to put up a smiling face in
the front of an array of cameras scrambling to get the best shots
of him.

The CCT members led by their Chairman, Danladi Umar, arrived the
courtroom at exactly 12.14pm.

The two other members are Williams Atedze and Julie Anabor.

Onnoghen has reportedly resigned on April 4, he was charged with
alleged breaches of the Code of Conduct for Public Officers before
the CCT on January 11, 2019, as a sitting CJN.

Specifically, the Federal Government, acting through the Code of
Conduct Bureau, had on January 11, filed against Onnoghen, six
counts, accusing him in the first count of failure to declare his
assets to the bureau between June 2005 and December 14, 2016.

In the rest of the five counts, the defendant was alleged to
have falsely declared his assets on December 14, 2016, by allegedly
omitting to declare his domiciliary dollar, euro and pound sterling
accounts as well as his two naira accounts, all maintained with
Standard Chartered Bank (Nig.) Ltd.

Tactical Police Team Deployed to Nasarawa over
Killing

Against the backdrop of the shootings on 14th April, 2019 in
Numa Kochu village, Nasarawa State which resulted in the injury to
and death of innocent persons, the Inspector General Police Ag. IGP
M.A. Adamu, NPM, mni has ordered for the immediate deployment of
combined units of intervention squads to provide additional support
to the existing operatives in the State. The IGP has further
directed the Commissioner of Police, Nasarawa State to identify and
fish out all persons connected to the dastardly killings.

The combined tactical teams comprising the Police Mobile Force
(PMF), Counter Terrorism Unit (CTU), Explosive Ordinance Department
(EOD), IGP Intelligence Response Team (IRT), Force Intelligence
Bureau (FIB) and Specialized Investigators from the Force Criminal
Investigation Department (FCID) have been mandated to provide
support to the existing security architecture in the State to
prevent further attacks and carry out discrete investigation into
the killings.

While restating the commitment of the Force to uncover and bring
the perpetrators of the killing to justice, the IGP implores any
member of the Public with useful and credible information that
could aid the ongoing investigation not to hesitate to avail same
to the Police through the following contacts: 08033097663,
08033674246

DCP FRANK MBA

FORCE PUBLIC RELATIONS OFFICER

FORCE HEADQUARTERS

ABUJA