Former Chief Justice of Nigeria, Walter Onnoghen, has arrived at the Appeal Court Abuja ahead of hearing of his appeal against his unceremonious removal from office in 2019.
Justice Walter Onnoghen has waited five long years to finally have his day in court after his removal in April 2019 for breaching the code of conduct for public officers.
Onnoghen has described the judgment of the Danladi Umar-led Code of Conduct Tribunal which removed him as failing to accord him his right of fair hearing and also insists the CCT acted outside its jurisdiction as it’s the National Judicial Council, NJC that has the jurisdiction to probe and punish justices for improper conduct.
In his appeal, Justice Onnoghen, through his lead counsel, Adegboyega Awomolo, is asking the appellate court to quash his conviction.
The CCT had also stripped him of all offices earlier occupied among which were the chairman of the National Judicial Council, NJC, and also the chairmanship of the Federal Judicial Service Commission.
It further ordered the forfeiture of his five bank accounts and the money which Onnoghen did not declare in his asset declaration form submitted to the Code of Conduct Bureau, an agency of the Federal Government.
Godfrey Eshiemoghie
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