Saraki Trial: See what this ex-senator said the CCT yesterday (video)

– Saraki has been undergoing trial since September 22, 2015

– He has been charged with 16 counts of corruption

– Senator Joseph Waku has decried the way the case is being handled at the CCT

Senator Joseph Waku

Senator Joseph Waku, a representative of the Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) who represented Benue north senatorial district from 1999 to 2003, on Thursday, April 28, decried the way and manner that the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT) case against the Senate President Bukola Saraki, has been handled.

Speaking with newsmen on the sidelines of the CCT, Waku said that he was mandated by the Arewa Consultative Forum to observe the proceedings, and report back to the forum.

He said in as much as we are against corruption, let the legal process take its due cognisance.

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“I have been watching you guys in the television and reading you in the newspapers, and I was mandated by the Arewa Consultative Forum to come here as an observer and watch the procedures and go back to report what I have found. 

“My observations are that there is a premeditated something that is going on in this country. The judiciary is on trial, the country is on trial, the Justices are on trial and we are watching to see, because similar cases have gone on before and we know how they ended.

“So, my observations here today are those things that I have witnessed  and I have to go back to the mother organizations to report my findings, my witnesses, what I have seen and the way I have looked at it.

“I think that Nigeria is again moving through a trying period of Judicial process and I make bold to advise that the prosecution witness do not have prerogative of knowledge but from the look of things, there is already tele-guided judgement that one expects to see in future and that may not be good for this country.

“It will not be good for Judicial process, it is not going to be good for democracy and it will not be in the best interest of the ‘Change’ that we are looking for,” he said.

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There has been a lot of drama in the trial of Bukola Saraki, the Senate President. On September 22, 2015, Saraki was charged to court for over 13 counts of corruption on charges bordering on falsification of assets while he was the governor of Kwara state.

Following his inauguration on May 29, President Muhammadu Buhari directed that all political office holders to declare their assets on assumption of office.

This directive led to an investigation by the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT) which boiled down to the collection of assets declaration form from the CCT by Saraki, because according to the tribunal his assets declaration turned out to be false.

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