The CCT found ORUBEBE guilty of false declaration of assets and ordered the forfeiture of the undeclared Abuja property.
The Chairman of the tribunal, Justice DANLADI UMAR, declared that the prosecution proved its case against ORUBEBE beyond reasonable doubt.
Justice UMAR held that ORUBEBE committed an offence by not declaring a piece of property in Abuja, which he claimed he had sold.
The CCT Chairman said the documents presented as evidence by the prosecution proved that ORUBEBE was guilty.
You will recall that the former Niger Delta Minister had pleaded not guilty to two counts of false declaration of assets and another two counts of bribery when he was arraigned before the Code of Conduct Tribunal.
ORUBEBE was charged by the Code of Conduct Bureau for alleged failure to declare landed property located in Kyamu and Asokoro district within Abuja.
He was also accused of accepting bribes of seventy million naira for the award of contracts in favour of a company allegedly linked to him.
Meanwhile, GODSWILL ORUBEBE has declared that he would appeal the judgment of the Code of Conduct Tribunal.
His lawyer, LARRY IZIMOJE, gave this indication at the end of the trial in Abuja.
The lawyer described the judgment as a travesty of justice, stressing that CCT had shown that it was bent on convicting ORUBEBE at all cost.
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