Supreme Court fixes date for ruling on Saraki’s CCT Trial Appeal

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Following appeal by the Senate president, Bukola Saraki asking court to stop his case at the CCT trial. The Supreme court has slated July 6 as date for delivering judgment in the appeal challenging the ruling of the Court of Appeal which asked the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT) to try him on three of the 18 counts brought against him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Daily post reports.

 The apex court fixed the date on Thursday in Abuja after hearing the appeal and cross-appeal filed by the Senate President and the anti-graft agency over allegations of false asset declaration.
Senator Saraki is contending that there is no prima facia case against him and as such, the apex court should uphold his no case submission which was upheld by the CCT.

 Counsel to the Senate President, Mr Kanu Agabi SAN told the court that the law was not followed in filing the case against his client.

 He added that section 15 of the Code of Conduct Bureau (CCB) Act stipulates that only an authorised person can verify whether a person’s asset declaration was properly done or not.

 Agabi maintained that, in the extant case, all four witnesses presented by the prosecution at the CCT did not meet the requirements stipulated by law.
He, therefore, asked the court to uphold his appeal and dismiss all the charges against him.

 The prosecuting counsel, Mr Rotimi Jacobs SAN, who filed a cross-appeal, asked the court to quash the no case submission upheld by the CCT and ask the tribunal to retry the Senate President on all 18 counts preferred against him.

 Jacobs argued that the section of the law relied on by the Senate President was not mandatory and that based on a whistleblower information or petition, the Attorney-General felt there was a breach of the law and ordered the investigation which led to the prosecution of Saraki.

 When asked if Saraki was invited based on the findings of the investigation, the prosecutor answered in the affirmative, and when asked who the Senate President made a statement to, he told the court that it was the EFCC and not the CCB.
He, however, insisted that the Senate President had a case to answer and as such, his cross-appeal seeking to quash the no-case submission upheld by the CCT should be allowed.

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