Group urges CJN Onnoghen to probe corrupt governors

- A group, the Human Environmental Development Agenda (HEDA), cites a section of the ICPC act which empowers CJN Onnoghen to raise an independent counsel to probe allegations against the president, vice president, governors and deputy governors

- HEDA says Nigeria has about N2 trillion cases of corruption, including the $2 billion arms procurement case involving a former NSA, Sambo Dasuki

- The group states that it is disturbed by cumulative implications of stolen capital flight from Nigeria in particular and developing countries in general

A group, the Human Environmental Development Agenda (HEDA) has asked the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Walter Onnoghen, to probe governors accused of corrupt practices.

The Nation reports that HEDA made the request in a letter where it highlighted the corruption allegations against 47 former governors, 10 former ministers/ presidential advisers, three senators and two judges among others.

It stated that Nigeria has about N2 trillion cases of corruption, including the $2 billion arms procurement case involving a former national security adviser, Sambo Dasuki.

The group asked Onnoghen to invoke his powers under section 52 of the ICPC act which empowers him to raise an independent counsel to probe allegations against the president, vice president, governors and deputy governors.

“Disturbed by the increasing rate cum phenomenal cumulative implications of stolen capital flight from Nigeria in particular and developing countries in general, and the escalating rise in the laundering of resources and illicit trans-border assets acquisition, the HEDA Resource Centre in collaboration with other local and global stakeholders convened a one-day international conference on tracking and recovery of illicit transactions and proceeds thereof on 13th November, 2018.” the group said.

”At the said world forum, it was unanimously resolved that a special letter should be written to the Chief justice of Nigeria with a view to drawing the attention of the Number One Judicial Officer of the country and indeed of the largest judiciary in Africa South of the Sahara and North of the River Limpopo to the provisions of Section 52 of the Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Act. We hereby do so.

“Learned Law Lord, the foregoing provisions of the ICPC Act is clearly not in the public domain nor has it been ever utilized by any Nigerian, corporate or unincorporated, whatsoever and howsoever yet it remains a very potent instrumentality for curtailing, if not completely eradicating, theft, kleptocracy, misappropriation and all other forms of corrupt practices prohibited by the various national and international legal instruments against corruption and illicit assets.

“Consequently, the HEDA Resource Centre in concert with other local and global stakeholders hereby beseech your Lordship to urgently and kindly use your good office to publicize and activate the provisions of the said Section 52 of the ICPC Act so as to ensure or facilitate a giant leap by the Nigerian Judiciary in the global assault on corruption and corrupt practices.”

But the CJN through his senior special assistant to Jane E. Edu, in a December 8 letter, reportedly said he would not usurp the roles of anti-graft agency.

In a related report, HEDA, has petitioned the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Walter Onnoghen, to investigate the corruption allegations levelled against Kano state governor, Abdullahi Ganduje.

The group, in a letter signed by HEDA’s chairman, Olanrewaju Suraju, said the request became necessary following the refusal of Ganduje to appear before the committee set up by the state House of Assembly to probe allegations against him.

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