The suspended Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Walter Onnoghen, on Friday, accused the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT) of not following its set standard operating procedures in instituting the case against him.
Onnoghen is facing charges brought against him by the Code of Conduct Bureau (CCB) in January.
The CCB accused Onnoghen of failing to declare his assets from June 2005, after he became a Justice of the Supreme Court, until December 2016, two months after the Federal Government raided the homes of several judges, including judges of the Supreme Court in October 2018.
According to the six-count charge brought against him, Onnoghen is also accused of false declaration of his assets, following his alleged failure to include some domiciliary accounts managed by the Standard Chartered Bank.
The accounts, created in 2011 and used for the transfer of foreign currencies, were omitted in one of two forms filled on December 14, 2016, by Onnoghen.
According to Section 3(d) of the CCB act, the Bureau is empowered to receive complaints about cases of non-compliance with or breach of the act.