CLO Wants Judiciary to maintain Accepted Standard in Prosecuting Saraki

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CLO Wants Judiciary to maintain Accepted Standard in Prosecuting Saraki

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The Civil Liberties Organisation (CLO), on Tuesday, called on the Nigerian Judiciary to maintain what it termed the accepted standards within the judiciary in handling all matters including the allegation against the Senate President, Bukola Saraki. Addressing a press conference with the title, ”˜The trial of Bukola Saraki: Prosecution or Persecution’, the organisation further stated that the courts must not allow its hallowed chambers to be used by politicians to settle scores but should ensure that justice is not only done, but must be seen to be done. According to the CLO, “The Civil Liberties Organisation is compelled at this time to lend its voice to the current debate surrounding the ongoing trial of the senate president, Dr. Bukola Saraki by the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT). “This is to ensure sanity in our body polity and avert the truncation of the anti-corruption battle and in the process, defame and destroy the judiciary, its various processes and subjugate the legislature and thus undermine the principles and practice of democracy. “We make haste, therefore, to applaud this administration for its courage in bringing to the court one of its principal actors in the person of the president of the senate. We acknowledge that this is part of the administration’s effort in stamping out corruption and all its vestiges from our national life. “However, after reviewing the ongoing trial so far, the CLO contends that while engaging this battle, the government may be unwittingly walking in error and playing into the hands of those whose interest it is, to whittle down and frustrate the anti-corruption battle.” While insisting that no one is above the law, the organisation expressed its support for every effort aimed at bringing to court anyone suspected to have put his hands in in the nation’s treasury. The CLO further called on the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT) to be fair and upright in its adjudication by not giving in to any form of intimidation, inducement or harassment, with an addition that anything contrary poses a grave danger to the judiciary and the nation’s democracy.

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