Omoyele Sowore, presidential candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC), says he was the first person to expose Walter Onnoghen, the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), as possessing accounts containing unexplainable funds.
Sowore said this on Wednesday night while
featuring at a town-hall meeting tagged ‘TheCandidates’, broadcast live
on the Nigeria Television Authority (NTA) with the support of MacArthur
Foundation.
He made the statement while answering a question on how his administration would tackle corruption, if elected.
He explained that for any anti-corruption war to succeed, it must be fought indiscriminately.
“There
must be consequences, you know… for people to know that it is not
alright to be corrupt and still get a chieftaincy title,” he said.
“Look
at the judiciary. Look, Nigeria has been playing around with crruption
for a long time, but you know, as an individual, I have been fighting
corruption for the last 12 years with SaharaReporters.
“The Chief
Justice of Nigeria who is under trial now, I was the first person on
SaharaReporters to put out his account that he has money that he cannot
explain. Do you know what happened when I did it? The EFCC issued a
statement that I was wrong. Now, when it is politically expedient, he is
underoing trial.”
Onnoghen is currently being tried at the Code
of Conduct Tribunal (CCT) for fraudulent asset declaration, with latest
revelation about his bank account detailing a series of dubious payments
to the tune of bundreds of thousands of dollars.
Source:- Saharareporters
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