The Presidency may have perfected plans to appeal the recent ruling of the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT) which discharged and acquitted the Senate President, Bukola Saraki of all allegations bothering on false asset declaration.
The Special Assistant to the President on Prosecution, Okoi Obono-Obla who made this known in an interview with Punch correspondents lamented that the CCT panel led by Danladi Umar misapplied the law by adopting the wrong standard of proof to arrive at the ruling.
According to him “Definitely we are going to appeal against the ruling in Saraki’s case. One of our grounds of appeal is that the tribunal misapplied the law. For instance, the standard of proof that the tribunal used is not applicable to charges of false declaration of asset."
He added that “It (charge of false asset declaration) is a strict liability offence, so you cannot apply the standard of proof that is applied in the regular criminal proceedings. Surely, we will file the appeal on Wednesday. We are resolute. We are going to fight this war to the end. We must clean up Nigeria, otherwise the nation is doomed.
We have gone back to the drawing board to change our tactics and strategies. Anybody who thinks he can get away with an act of corruption is dreaming. We are going to file an appeal against all the nonsensical rulings that we have got from our court in recent times.”
