The senate has amended the act establishing the Code of Conduct
Tribunal. At the plenary presided by Deputy Senate President Ike
Ekweremadu, the senators passed 14 amendments to the Act.
According to The Cable, the senate amended section 3 of the Act thus:
“Upon complaint(s) of any breach or where it appears to the bureau that
there is a breach of the provision or this Act, the person concerned
shall be given particulars of such non compliance or breaches to explain
before any reference to the tribunal.”
This implies that the CCB cannot immediately refer a matter to the CCT
without giving a public officer a notice; one of the contentions of
Saraki.
Section 1 (4) which was expunged, and replaced with “the chairman and
members shall serve for a term of five years subject to renewal for one
further term only”.
Section 4 (2) was amended to substitute the word “president” with “the
national assembly” as the one to confer powers on the bureau and the
tribunal.
The senate fixed the age of entry to the bureau at 50, and the number of
members of the tribunal to sit in judgment on a case at three.
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