The Reason I Moved Against Onnoghen – Buhari

President Muhammadu Buhari has lamented the injustice of dispensers of justice being corrupt saying that he was reluctantly forced to deal with the erstwhile Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Walter Onnoghen based on corruption.

He spoke when he received a delegation of Afenifere led by Senator Olabiyi Durojaiye that also included All Progressives Congress, APC leader, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu.

The delegation had appraised the president on the security situation in the Southwest and asked for immediate response to tackle with the spate of kidnapping and other vices.

Speaking to the delegation, the president who lamented the effect of corruption on the country, said:

“Again I don’t mind repeating myself even though I sound like a broken record, as a military head of state, I took everyone to prison and pronounced them guilty until they can prove themselves innocent. 

Observing that he was opposed and subsequently detained and those he jailed given back their properties, he said a repeat of that will not happen giving the example of the erstwhile Chief Justice of Nigeria, CJN,

“I will tell you as Afenirere, that was why I had to deal though reluctantly  with the former Chief Justice. Because there were millions of dollars, euros not to talk of naira which were not declared. 

“I wonder what sort of conscience some of us have, how can you seat and preside and lock people up for years and even sentence some to death and yet you are not doing what the constitution said you should do by occupying that vital institution.”

The president’s assertion is against the background of insinuations that the removal of Onnoghen was fueled by politics as made by the opposition and some international observers.

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