Senate committee gives Code of Conduct Office two weeks to deal with internal crisis
The Senate Committee on Ethics, Privileges, and Public Petitions has given the Code of Conduct Office (CCB) two weeks to address the agency's corruption crisis.
Committee Chairman Ayo Akinyelure (PDP-Ondo Central) delivered the directive to CCB Chairman Mohammed Isah and his Federal Commissioners on Thursday in Abuja.
Mr. Isah and six embattled commissioners from the office appeared before the committee on Thursday, as reported last week on Friday.
“This committee is the ombudsman of the Senate; the voice of the voiceless in the Senate.
"You are stakeholders. Before the president appointed each of you to represent the people, he had to find you men of integrity.
"We respected the agency because it is the first anti-corruption agency created by the Constitution.
“We are giving you two weeks to resolve your problem,” Mr. Akinyelure said.
READ ALSO:The aggrieved commissioners, led by Emmanuel Attah, had written a petition to the Senate alleging that Mr Isah was blocking investigations against public officials with assets of millions and billions of naira not shown in their asset declaration forms.
Based on the allegations against him, the CCB chairman was scheduled to appear before the committee last Friday but was absent when five of the six commissioners were present.
One of the commissioners, Ehiozuwa Agbonayinma, along with others, told reporters that they asked the president to save the CCB from the self-inflicted incapacitation the president had inflicted on it.
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The Senate Committee on Ethics, Privileges, and Public Petitions has given the Code of Conduct Office (CCB) two weeks to address the agency's corruption crisis.
Committee Chairman Ayo Akinyelure (PDP-Ondo Central) delivered the directive to CCB Chairman Mohammed Isah and his Federal Commissioners on Thursday in Abuja.
Mr. Isah and six embattled commissioners from the office appeared before the committee on Thursday, as reported last week on Friday.
“This committee is the ombudsman of the Senate; the voice of the voiceless in the Senate.
"You are stakeholders. Before the president appointed each of you to represent the people, he had to find you men of integrity.
"We respected the agency because it is the first anti-corruption agency created by the Constitution.
“We are giving you two weeks to resolve your problem,” Mr. Akinyelure said.
READ ALSO:The aggrieved commissioners, led by Emmanuel Attah, had written a petition to the Senate alleging that Mr Isah was blocking investigations against public officials with assets of millions and billions of naira not shown in their asset declaration forms.
Based on the allegations against him, the CCB chairman was scheduled to appear before the committee last Friday but was absent when five of the six commissioners were present.
One of the commissioners, Ehiozuwa Agbonayinma, along with others, told reporters that they asked the president to save the CCB from the self-inflicted incapacitation the president had inflicted on it.
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