Alleged $9M discovery: DSS has never raided my home — CJN

The Chief Justice of Nigeria, (CJN) Justice Walter Samuel Nkanu Onnoghen GCON has distanced himself from the Nine Million US dollars ($9M ) allegedly found in his home. This was contained in a statement issued on Monday by Mr. Awassam  Bassey, Senior Special Assistant (Media) to the CJN.   The CJN advised the public to disregard […]

The Chief Justice of Nigeria, (CJN) Justice Walter Samuel Nkanu Onnoghen GCON has distanced himself from the Nine Million US dollars ($9M ) allegedly found in his home.

This was contained in a statement issued on Monday by Mr. Awassam  Bassey, Senior Special Assistant (Media) to the CJN. 

 The CJN advised the public to disregard these infantile lies most probably intended to impugn his good name and distract him from the programmes which he recently introduced and has started implementing to reform the Judiciary as the third arm of government.

“The truth, which is already in the public domain,  is that the DSS has never raided the home of the CJN; not recently and certainly not in the October 2016 invasion of the homes of some Judicial Officers in the country.

“It therefore beats the imagination why anyone would go out of their way to concoct and fabricate stories which are obvious falsehood”.

The CJN assured Nigerians that the sponsors of these fake news stories and their campaign to smear his name will not distract, discourage or slow the reforms he has begun implementing.

The CJN advised online publishers not to allow their platforms to be used as a medium for publication of fake news which does the country more harm than good in the eyes of the international community.