Anti-corruption and elections / EFCC

Corruption: Ex- Enugu CJ, Umezuluike Breached Code of Conduct – Witness

A principal witness for the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC in the case involving the erstwhile Chief Judge of Enugu State, Justice, Innocent Azubuike Umezuluike ( before Justice A.O. Onovo of the Federal High Court, sitting in Enugu, Peter Eze on Thursday, November 2, 2017 told the court that Umezulike by accepting a gift from a litigant in a case pending before him, breached both the judicial and public service codes of conduct. Eze made the statement while being led in evidence by prosecution counsel, Wahab Shittu. “It was clearly evident that the defendant was biased in hand…