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Our laws are in trouble - Falana speaks on CJN’s trial

- Human rights lawyer, Femi Falana (SAN), has spoken on the six-count charges preferred against Walter Onnoghen by the federal government

- Onnoghen, Chief Justice of Nigeria, has been accused of failing to declare some of his assets while declaring them at the Code of Conduct Bureau

- Falana says the most dangerous aspect of what is going on now is that Nigerian laws are in faulted

Human rights lawyer, Femi Falana (SAN), has spoken on the charges filed against the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Water Onnoghen, before the Code of Conduct Tribunal saying the dangerous aspect of the matter is that Nigerian laws would be affected.

Falana who made this known on Tuesday, January 15, in Lagos during the 15th Gani Fawehinmi annual lecture said the speed with which the various suits filed to challenge the charges against the CJN were heard and ruled upon by the courts was unprecedented.

Falana said: “The most dangerous aspect of what is going on now is that our laws are in trouble. Issues that have been settled by the Supreme Court in the Saraki vs FRN case are being reopened now.

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“The question of the appearance of the accused, the question of service; it came up in Saraki’s case. Once you are aware, you have been served. But we are opening it afresh.

“I just saw another disturbing one, the National Industrial Court has waded in to say that the Chief Justice shall not be arrested. Who is talking of arrest? What is the locus standi of the National Industrial Court on the affairs of a judge?

“We are now being told that the Chief Justice is an employee who should be protected by the National Industrial Court.

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The other one happened yesterday (Monday) when I discovered that a case that was filed at the Federal High Court yesterday (Monday) was processed yesterday, assigned yesterday, heard yesterday and an order was made yesterday. In the last 20 years, it has never happened in any court in Nigeria.

“Please, let us know that we are setting dangerous precedents. And that is why sentiment should not come in.”

Meanwhile, Legit.ng had reported that the Federal High Court in Abuja stopped the federal government’s plan to arraign the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Walter Onnoghen, before the Code of Conduct Tribunal.

The federal government through the Code of Conduct Bureau filed six count charge of non-declaration of assets against the CJN. Justice N.E Maha, ruling on two separate ex parte applications, ordered parties to maintain status quo till January 17.

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