The CCT chairman attended the March 21 proceedings with the copies of the editions of the newspapers, where he read aloud the headlines on the front pages.
According to Umar, contrary to the reports contained in the March 19, 2019 editions of the newspapers, the defence, led by Chief Adegboyega Awomolo , did not accuse the Federal Government of tampering with certain assets declaration forms submitted to the Code of Conduct Bureau by Onnoghen.
Reacting to what he described as the newspapers’ “distortion and misrepresentation of the last proceedings of the trial,” he threatened that any journalist who commits such infraction again might have to remain in prison until his retirement in 28 years’ time.The PUNCH The relevant portion of the record of proceedings is the aspect which captures Awomolo’s concerns about the tendering of Onnoghen’s asset declaration forms.
“There are pages, pages 3, 5 that are duplicated with different entries and that is 2014 I’m talking about now.
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