Flashback: In 2018 CCT Chairman Danladi and Bribery Charges Filed Against Him by Festus Keyamo

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Recall that sometime in February 2018, Festus Keyamo, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), filed a two-count charge of fraud against Umar, on behalf of the EFCC.





The charge has the same substance as the grounds for which the agency had earlier cleared Umar.





Umar had wondered the choice of Keyamo in the fresh charges filed against him because he was the one who initially represented Taiwo in the cleared offence, who allegedly bribed the CCT chairman.





“Festus Keyamo is the legal representative of the man that the chairman allegedly collected money from. He is the one standing on his behalf before CCT chairman,” Ibraheem Al-Hassan, spokesman of the CCT chairman, had said.





“We begin to get confused though maybe because we are not learned people but we felt that morally how can you be defending case here and prosecuting the person the that you are defending case before him. We felt morally that is not right.





What went wrong?  We leave the judgement to you to assess.





In the charge, Umar was accused of, while presiding over a case with Charge No. CCT/ABJ/03/13 involving one Rasheed Owolabi Taiwo, sometime in 2012, at Abuja, within the jurisdiction of the court did ask for the sum of N10,000,000 from the said Rasheed Owolabi Taiwo, for a favour to be afterwards shown to him in relation to the pending Charge (No. CCT/ABJ/03/12) in discharge of his official duties and thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 12(1)(a) & (b) of the Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Act, 2003.





Umar was also alleged to have received another N1,800,000 from the said Rasheed Owolabi through his Personal Assistant by name Alhaji Gambo Abdullahi for a favour to be afterwards shown to him in relation to the pending charge in discharge of his official duties and thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 12(1)(a)&(b) of the Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Act, 2003.





In a similar vein, Umar continued the trial of Taiwo over alleged non-declaration of assets, despite the pending charge ‎against him (Umar).





He has today Friday 25th January, 2019 given an ex-parte Order for the immediate removal of the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Walter Onnoghen for alleged non declaration of assets.





What does Festus Keyamo have to say about this recent decision by same man who he stood against for bribery and non declaration of asset? Is Mr. President at fault or the Chairman of the CCT who are lawyers and knowledgeable of the provisions of the Constitution for the removal of the Chief Justice of Nigeria?.


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