FG closes case of non-asset declaration against Onnoghen
March 21, 2019
12:03 pm
The federal government has closed its case of non-asset declaration charges against the suspended Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Walter Onnoghen.
Onnoghen is being prosecuted by the federal government on a six-count charge over alleged failure to disclose some of his assets in his Asset Declaration forms submitted to the Code of Conduct Bureau (CCB).
However, the prosecution counsel, Aliyu Umar (SAN), announced that the prosecution is closing its case shortly after the defendant finished the cross examination of the third prosecution witness, Ifeoma Okeagbue, an official of Standard Chartered Bank.
The prosecution, in its application for the trial,
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