The prosecution in the trial of suspended Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Walter Onnoghen closed its case on Thursday after calling three witnesses.
Onnoghen is being tried before the Code of Conduct Tribunal on allegation of non-declaration of assets in violation of the code of conduct for public officers.
Umar, at the conclusion of Okabue’s testimony, told the tribunal that, although the prosecution had indicated its intention to call six witnesses, it was comfortable with the testimony of the three witnesses called so far and would close its case. Still reading from the documents, the witness gave the balance in each of the accounts to include, that the first had an opening balance of €30,178.58 in January 2018 and a balance of €10,187.18 as at December 2018.
The witness said the fifth account:50010626 had an opening balance of N6,411,312.77k by January 2018, which increased to N12,852,580.52 by December of the same year. When asked if such communication ever took place in relation to the status of the defendant’s accounts, the witness said she can’t recall her bank or her informing the defendant that any of his account is dormant or should re-activate.
She said bank advised the defendant to invest in other profit yielding investments, and that interests on these investments were regularly credited to these accounts “My schedule of duties includes taking charge of the general administration of the department, responsible for operational activities of the department that include issuing and receiving completed copies of assets declaration forms from federal political office holders as well as staff of the Federal Judiciary.
“I left the meeting and came to attend to the defendant, who was accompanied by one other person. I collected the forms from him. “I received two forms from the defendant. After signing, the slips were detached from the forms and were handed over to the person, who the defendant came to my office with. The forms were retained in the Chairman’s office, as is the procedure,” the witness said.
At the conclusion of the prosecution witness’ testimony, Umar announced the closure of the prosecution’s case, following which Awomolo said, the defence plans to make a no-case submission in line with the provision of Section 303 of the Administration of Criminal Justice Act (ACJA.
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