{"id":8339,"date":"2019-03-25T09:12:20","date_gmt":"2019-03-25T09:12:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aigmediapro.tv\/?p=8339"},"modified":"2019-03-25T09:12:43","modified_gmt":"2019-03-25T09:12:43","slug":"efcc-closes-case-against-onnoghen-at-njc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aigmediapro.tv\/efcc-closes-case-against-onnoghen-at-njc\/","title":{"rendered":"EFCC Closes Case Against Onnoghen At NJC"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The\nEconomic and Financial Crimes Commission has rested its case of alleged\nmisconduct against the suspended Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Walter\nOnnoghen, at the National Judicial Council.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our correspondent learnt from multiple sources\nconversant with the proceedings of the five-man investigation panel of the NJC\nthat the EFCC rested its case after calling seven witnesses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The commission was said to have called its first\nwitness on March 12 and rested its case within one week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was discovered on Sunday that Onnoghen has since opened his defense and called two witnesses on Wednesday, March 20.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe EFCC has rested its case and Justice Onnoghen\nhas opened his defence. With this, we expect that the NJC will soon end its\ninvestigation,\u201d one of the sources told our correspondent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In its petition before the NJC, the EFCC, it was learnt, accused Onnoghen of having some suspicious lodgments of huge funds in his bank accounts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The other petition against the suspended CJN was\nreportedly by a civil society group, the Anti-Corruption and Research-Based\nData Initiative, and its Executive Director, Mr. Dennis Aghanya.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The allegations in the petition sent to the NJC by\nthe group were said to be a replica of the petition sent to the Code of Conduct\nBureau which informed the six counts filed before the Code of Conduct Tribunal\naccusing the suspended CJN of failure to declare some bank accounts with huge\nfunds in foreign currencies as part of his assets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The NJC had at its February 13, 2019 meeting\nreviewed the pre-assessment report on the petitions written against Onnoghen\nand the acting Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Tahko Muhammad, and considered\nthe complaints worthy of being investigated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The council then set up the five-man panel led by a\nretired Justice of the Supreme Court, Justice S.A. Akande, to investigate the\npetitions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are at least two petitions against each of\nOnnoghen and Muhammad to be heard by the Justice Akande-led panel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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