Davidson Iriekpen
A judicial advocacy group, Access to Justice, has described the Court of Appeal’s decision to deliver its ruling after the winding up of the Code of Conduct Tribunal’s (CCT) trial of the embattled former Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Walter Onnoghen, as unfortunate.
The group, in a statement at the weekend by its Executive Director, Joseph Otteh, said the judgments were not only of no value and too late in coming but were not much other than hollow rites of passage.
It added that if the appellate court had reached its decisions earlier, it would have represented a timely intervention required in Onnoghen’s trial.
“Had the decision of the Court of Appeal been delivered sooner, at a time when it could have mattered, it would have represented a timely intervention required, at that time, to meet the exigencies of the situation in the tribunal.
“It could have halted the travesty and charade that…
