Remove Wole Olanipekun, JB Dauda from Corruption Case Monitoring Committee, CACOL tells CJN

A civil society organization, Centre for Anti-Corruption and Open Leadership (CACOL), has called on the Chief Justice of Nigeria and Chairman, National Judicial Council (NJC), Justice Walter Onnoghen, to review the membership of the Corruption and Financial Cases Monitoring Committee recently constituted by the NJC.

This, the organization said, is to ensure that people with blighted reputations are not allowed to sit on the committee.

The organization, previously known as Coalition Against Corrupt Leaders, made the call in a letter addressed to the CJN by Mr. Debo Adeniran, its Executive Chairman.

Dated 6 October, the letter listed Messrs. Wole Olanipekun and JB Dauda, both Senior Advocates of Nigeria, as being unworthy to sit on the committee.

While commending the choices of Justice Ayo Salami, retired President of the Federal Court of Appeal, and Mr. Olisa Agbakoba (SAN), CACOL maintained that Messrs. Olanipekun and Dauda have no business being on the committee because they have used their legal skills to defend corruption suspects.