Suspended Chief Justice of Nigeria, CJN, Justice Walter Onnoghen, has stated how he got the foreign currencies found in his domiciliary accounts.
In a ‘Cautionary Statement Form’ he filed at the Department of Intelligence Investigation and Monitoring, Code of Conduct Bureau, CCB, in Abuja, Onnoghen explained that the deposits in his dollar account were from trading in foreign exchange (forex), AGRICODE, while other investment returns were from proceeds of his investments.
DAILY POST recalls that while suspending the CJN last week, President Muhammadu Buhari had stated that the Bank Verification Number, BVN, had discovered foreign accounts belonging to Onnoghen with deposits of dollars and other foreign currencies.
Justice Onnoghen, in a voluntary statement he made at CCB, opened up on how he got the foreign currencies.
He explained that “the deposits made in my US Dollar account No. 87000106250 with STD. Chartered Bank of $10,000 at different intervals of June 28, 2011 were sourced partly from my reserve and saving from my estacodes, including medical expenses.
“The same applies to my deposit of July 28, 2011, of $10,000 twice. It is important to state that prior to my opening the US dollar account, I had foreign currency, which I kept at home, due to the fact that there existed a government that proscribed the operation of foreign currency account by public officers including judicial officers.
