ALLEGED FALSE ASSET DECLARATION!!

The Code of Conduct Tribunal has ordered the arrest of the Senate President, Senator Bukola Saraki for failing to appear before the Tribunal to answer charges of alleged false declaration while he served as Governor of Kwara State between 2003 and 2007.

Delivering a ruling on the suit filed by the Code of Conduct Bureau, Chairman of the Tribunal, Justice Danladi Umar ordered the Inspector-General of Police, Mr Solomon Arase, to produce the Senate President on Monday, September 21, which is the next adjourned date.The Tribunal held that no court of coordinate jurisdiction can restrain the Tribunal from performing its constitutional duties.
The Tribunal further held that the Senate President Saraki was duly served with the hearing notice and cannot claim ignorance of the suit before the tribunal.
Lawyer to the Senate President, Mr Joseph Daudu, SAN had challenged the hearing of the suit, saying the prosecutor, Mr Mohammed Hassan lacks the locus standi to institute d action in d absence of an Attorney-General of the Federation.
Mr Hassan, who is a counsel in the office of the A.G.F. however disagreed, saying any officer in the office of the AGF can institute a criminal proceeding in the absence of an AGF.