Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Today's Quote

Dear Abdulahi Ashaffa,

Turn the same searchlight and at the same speed against ALL members of the FEC - Federal Executive Council and all the Senior officers of the House of Representatives and the Senate!  This selective attack on the symbol of the Judiciary for rain drops of corruption when there is a sea of corruption in the Presidency and the Legislature is HOW NOT to fight corruption!

It is a total faux pax and it will boomerang against the President and his Attorney-General.  It may even cost the President his re-election.

Cheers.

IBK

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Ibukunolu Alao Babajide (IBK)

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AN ENGLISH NURSERY RHYME

The law locks up the man or woman

Who steals the goose from off the common

But leaves the greater villain loose

Who steals the common from off the goose

 

The law demands that we atone

When we take things that we do not own

But leaves the lords and ladies fine

Who take things that are yours and mine

 

The poor and wretched don't escape

If they conspire the law to break

This must be so but they endure

Those who conspire to make the law

 

The law locks up the man or woman

Who steals the goose from off the common

And geese will still a common lack

Till they go and steal it back

 -        Anonymous (circa 1764)

On Sun, 13 Jan 2019 at 21:32, Ashafa Abdullahi <abashafa@gmail.com> wrote:

Kadiri, you are right. This is why Nigeria may never overcome corruption. Every matter is viewed through a Partisan lens.

How can a learned jurist claimed that he forgot to declare the following assets to the CCB;

$391,401.28 USD 

€49,971 .71 EURO

£23,409.66 GBP?

55. Houses

It's not even the question of depositing & how he got the monies. Some folks already believe this is political witch-hunt against the CJN. 

Would the learned jurist have forgotten to include those assets in his Last Will and Testament? 

The excuse of amnesia is a very weak one. No rational person will buy it. It's political because many said it's so. 

I read from the wall of another judge who opined as follows:

"I received several messages with case laws on Watsapp claiming the CJN can't be prosecuted without passing through NJC. Two of the cases that caught my attention is Nganjiwa v FRN and the notorious case of Hon Justice Erelu Habib, CJ Kwara. I will like to draw the attention of my colleagues in the temple and our facebook/watsapp learning friends that Judicial misconduct is clear different from what the CJN is facing, no one is accusing him of judicial misconduct, but non declaration of his asset which is a constitutional provision under the 5th Schedule of the 1999 CFRN. Going further, the supremacy of the constitution in S:1 (1) and especially (3) where it is said that any other law that is inconsistent to the provision of the constitution shall to the extent of its inconsistency be null and void and the constitution shall prevail. S:11 (1) (2) of the 5th schedule made it clear as to when a public official should declare his assets, and and false statement shall be deemed a breach of the code. S:12 of the schedule made it clear where such allegation of breach will be taken to, it never mentioned NJC but CCB. The Schedule also established the CCT and gave it powers under S:18, thus listing the punishment it can impose under 18: (2). Part II of the schedule, particularly no. 5 listed the CJN, JSC, P&JCA, and all other judicial Officers including staff of the court among public officers for the purpose of the code of conduct. It is therefore invariably clear and even more clearer that any violation of the CC by the CJN can be taken straight to the CCB. But if we insist that it must not be the case, then we might be inviting the National Assembly to also claim that any allegation against any of its members will go through the Ethics committee before the court. Furthermore, the NJC has the CJN as it's Chairman, this for the principle of justice to apply, he will still have to recuse himself because he can't be a judge in his own case "Nemo judex in causa sua". Let me say, discipline and removal of judicial officers is not a new something in the world, though the only thing strange is that of a Supreme Court Justice. In 1805, the US House of Representative successfully impeached Justice Samuel Chase of the US SC on allegation of partisanship which was laid by POTUS Jefferson, though it was later upturned by the Senate after a vote of 18/16 which did not give clear 2/3 majority for him to be impeached by the Senate, it remained the only successful attempt at the removal of a SC Justice in the US. We hope to continue evolving democratically. What is currently happening is part of the term "DEMOCRACY".

On Sun, Jan 13, 2019, 16:17 Salimonu Kadiri <ogunlakaiye@hotmail.com wrote:

​Chidi Anthony Okpara,

​As you know, we have Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) in Nigeria, created with the intention to solve both real and imaginary economic and industrial problems confronting our country and her citizens. Similar socio-economic and industrial problems confronting our dear country have been solved by countries with extreme bad climate and lack of natural resources when compared to Nigeria. Educationally, our MDAs have been, and are still, manned by Nigerians whose education are far more superior than the problems they are, employed, appointed, selected and heavily remunerated to solve. Take for instances the failures of our crude oil refineries and power generation and distribution to produce required results. So, my beloved Chidi, as long as you are not employed in any MDA in Nigeria, you must be rest assured that the term *overeducated* does not include you. The term refers to people who claim possession of knowledge to produce what Nigerians need and have been given the opportunity to demonstrate their expertise but they have failed.

​The six-count charge against Chief Justice Walter Samuel Nkanu Onnoghen was signed by Musa Ibrahim Usman (Esq) and Fatima Danjuma Ali (Esq) of the CCB on 11 January 2019, the same date Justice Onnoghen appeared before the CCB to explain his stance on the allegation against him. That the charge was signed the same day he appeared before the CCB does not in anyway constitute procedural defect. In fact, Chief Justice Onnoghen's statement is of secondary importance in the case when his Asset declarations defer significantly from his Bank accounts. As we have seen, he only tried to explain why he failed to declare his assets initially but not why he left out ownership of foreign currency accounts from his asset declarations. 

S. Kadiri   

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Salimonu Kadiri,
I know that you would not normally, by any stretch of imagination refer to me as one of "the overeducated Nigerians".

Let me nevertheless, inform you that the accused person's statement was dated 11-1-2019, while the "charge sheet" was dated 10-1-2019.

This means that the charges were written before the statement was obtained.

Does procedure matter in the dispensation of Justice and/or in anything else?

CAO.

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