The Chairman of the Code of Conduct Tribunal, Danladi Umar’s threat to imprison some journalists for alleged misrepresentation of the proceedings in the trial of the suspended Chief Justice of Nigeria
, Justice Walter Onnoghen, has proved to be based on a wrong premise, The PUNCH can report.
Umar had during the proceedings of March 21, 2019, accused three newspapers – The Guardian, The Pilot and This Day – of misrepresenting certain aspect of the proceedings which took place on March 18. Reacting to what he described as the newspapers’ distortion and misrepresentation of the last proceedings of the trial, he threatened that any journalist who commited such infraction again might have to remain in prison until his retirement in 28 years’ time.
It read in part, “Defence: For 2014, the form has been tampered with somehow, in the sense that there are duplication of pages and with different entries, that is the first observation.
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