Kotun Apili ta Abuja ta yi watsi da hukuncin da Hukumar Kafa Ka’idoji ta yanke a kan tsohon Shugaban Kotun Koli ta Nijeriya, Justice Walter Onnoghen, kan zargin karya bayanin kadarorin sa.
Hukuncin da kotun ta yanke a ranar Litinin, ya kawar da hukuncin da Hukumar Kafa Ka’idoji ta yanke a ranar 18 ga Afrilu, 2019, wanda ya same shi da laifin karya bayanin kadarorin sa.
Justice Abba Mohammed, wanda ya yanke hukuncin, ya bayar da umarnin dawo da asusun banki huɗu da aka umar da ajiye a baya ga Onnoghen, biyo bayan yarjejeniyar sulhu tsakanin gwamnatin tarayya da Onnoghen.
Yarjejeniyar sulhu ta bayyana cewa, ‘Appellant a nan an tuhume shi a gaban Hukumar Kafa Ka’idoji (CCT), kan tuhume shida da aka yi ranar 11 ga Janairu, 2019, wanda ya ki amincewa;… Sauran bayanin ya ci gaba da cewa, “Kafin haka, an yarda da shi ta hanyar jam’iyyun biyu kama haka: Cewa aikace-aikace uku wato: (1) CA/A/375c/2019 (2) CA/A/376c/2019 da (3) CA/A/377c/2019 za a haɗa don nufin jiha da sulhu a nan.”
Kotun ta kuma bayar da hukunci cewa, Hukumar Kafa Ka’idoji ba ta da ikon yin shari’a kan jami’in shari’a ba har sai ta kai shi gaban Majalisar Shari’a ta Kasa (NJC) a kan hukunce-hukuncen da aka yanke a baya.
A ranar da ta gabata, a watan Satumba 19, 2024, Kotun Apili ta amince da bukatar gwamnatin tarayya da tsohon CJN su sulhu lamarin a waje.
Tsohon Shugaban Ƙasa Muhammadu Buhari ya tsere Onnoghen daga mukaminsa a shekarar 2019 bayan tuhumar karya bayanin kadarorin sa, wanda Hukumar Kafa Ka’idoji ta same shi da laifin sa.
