The Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Walter Onnoghen, has received the full list of all the alleged looters being prosecuted across the country.
The 36 Chief Judges of state judiciaries and the Chief Judge of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Judiciary have reportedly complied with the directive from the CJN during his 2017 New Legal Year speech in September.
According to reports, all the Chief Judges and their FCT counterpart filed in all the corruption cases being handled by judges in their various jurisdictions.
The list reportedly contained the names of those on trial, the trial judges and the status of the cases.
It was learnt that the names of former governors, former ministers and former top military brass dominated the list.
Stalled cases like that of a former governor who allegedly got a perpetual injunction against his trial by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) are reportedly set for reconsideration by the newly-formed monitoring committee.
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