Alex Enumah in Abuja
The Court of Appeal in Abuja on Thursday announced that it would deliver Judgment in the four appeals filed by former Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Walter Onnoghen against the decision of the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT).
The appeals were made and argued by counsel to which the appellate court on February 27, 2019, reserved Judgment to a date that would be communicated to parties.
However, the Court of Appeal could not deliver its jugment before the CCT passed its own judgment convicting Onnoghen of all six count charge preferred against him by the Code of Conduct Bureau ( CCB).
The tribunal having found Onnoghen guilty of the charges ordered his removal as CJN, banned him from holding any public office for the next 10 years as well as forfeiting the monies in his undeclared accounts with the Standard Chartered Bank.
However, a statement by the Court of Appeal Media Officer, Sa’adatu Musa Kachalla, said the…
