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Saturday, 31 October 2015

Alleged false declaration of assets: Saraki loses appeal, goes to S-Court

•Appeal Court Justices disagree over legality of charge
By Ikechukwu Nnochiri
Legal dispute over the propriety of the13-count criminal charge pending against the Senate President, Dr. Olubukola Saraki, before the Code of Conduct Tribunal, CCT, has shifted to the Supreme Court.
This was even as Justices of the Abuja Division of the Court of Appeal, yesterday, disagreed on whether or not the charge which was preferred against Saraki by the Federal Ministry of Justice, ought to be quashed.
Saraki
Saraki
Whereas two of the appellate court Justices that heard Saraki’s appeal, Justices Moore Adumein and M. Mustapha, were of the view that the criminal case was properly instituted, a third member of the panel, Justice Joseph Ekanem , in his dissenting verdict yesterday, not only declared the charge before the CCT as incompetent and legally defective, he went ahead and discharged the accused person.
Meantime, before he dismissed Saraki’s appeal, Justice Adumein


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