#TrackNigeria – The Coalition of United Political Parties,CUPP, has leaked what he described as pictorial evidence of the raid allegedly by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC on a farm belonging to CJN Walter Onnoghen. The group leaked the photos Sunday along with a statement condemning what it claimed was an “illegal raid of the farm of the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Walter Onnoghen located in Nasarawa State yesterday evening.”
s was an “illegal raid of the farm of the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Walter Onnoghen located in Nasarawa State yesterday evening.”
CUPP Spokesperson, Ikenga Imo Ugochinyere said in the statement, “We have pictorial evidence to show that the farm was raided by a combined team of policemen and officials of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission.
Ugochinyere said “agents of the government stormed Onnoghen’s farm hunting for evidence to back new charges they will file against him to force him to resign.
According to CUPP, “The government wants Onnoghen out by all means so that it can completely take over the Supreme Court the petition of the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, against the result of the February 23 presidential election gets to the apex court.
The CUPP spokesman disclosed that “about nine men carried out the illegal raid on the farm. They were driven to the farm in a white Nissan bus with plate number “Abuja BWR 627 AT” at about 5pm.
“They included two policemen, five men in mufti, a drive and one videographer/photographer.
“These intruders did not present any search warrant. They claimed that the EFCC does not need a search warrant.
“They forcefully searched the farm manager’s office and took away a list of staff members from around February last year.
“The manager was then made to write and sign a document that nowhere was broken into, and nothing was taken. The Supervisor 1 was made to countersign the document. Both of them were made to sign under duress.
“The cashier was then harassed and forcefully made to turn over the sales record and all receipts and invoices in his keeping.
}He was also made to write an undertaking releasing the sales book to them under duress and made to write his name and role in the company.
“They attempted to harass the Human Resources Director over the phone and requested that the company’s invoices be turned over to the EFCC.
“They left with the company’s sales record, receipts and invoices, as well as the staff list.
“Only ID card of lead EFCC investigator was displayed and no copy of a search warrant was provided to the company,” CUPP claimed, adding, “We view this raid as President Muhammadu Buhari’s new onslaught against Justice Onnoghen who he illegally suspended as CJN recently.”
