A group of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), under the banner of the Progressive Foundational Movement (PFM), has demanded the immediate suspension of the chairmen of the Code of Conduct Bureau (CCB) and the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT) for inefficiency following the reported suspension of some government officials by President Bola Tinubu’s government.
The APC group claimed that two organisations had failed appallingly in the previous four years to combat corruption, particularly the Code of Conduct Bureau, whose chairman could not designate even one individual for prosecution before the Code of Conduct Tribunal.
The group’s National Coordinator, Barrister Aganaba Johnson, said in a statement released on Thursday in Abuja that the agency’s chairman, “Isah Mohammed is inefficient to continue to hold the position of CCB, is one record that for the first time in CCB history, a Board member has to petition the Chairman to the National Assembly for ineptitude and corruption because the Chairman is running the Bureau as his business empire without recourse to the Board for any decision he takes.”
The statement continued that the CCB chairman should also be looked into for “hobnobbing with the suspended CBN governor, Godwin Emiefiele and the NNPC GMD, Myele Kyari.
“The President should also beam his sweeping anti-corruption cleansing to the Code of Conduct Bureau and the Code of Conduct Tribunal, as these two agencies have failed woefully in the fight against corruption in the past four years, especially the Code of Conduct Bureau, where the Chairman has not in the past four years sent any one person to be prosecuted in the Code of Conduct Tribunal.
“The Chairman Isah Mohammed is inefficient to continue to hold the position of CCB, is one record that for the first time in CCB history, a Board member has to petition the Chairman to the National Assembly for ineptitude and corruption because the Chairman is running the Bureau as his business empire without recourse to the Board for any decision he takes.
“He has more than two thousand petitions on his table that he refuses to be investigated and prosecuted. Several instances abound with petitions against NNPC and CBN henchmen where the Chairman refused to assign the petitions for investigation.
“The Chairman needs to be investigated for his hobnobbing with Emiefiele and Myele Kyari, and because he was appointed by Malami and the Villa cabal, he feels he’s above the law just like Bawa the suspended EFCC Chairman,” the statement said.
The group listed cases the CCB Chairman allegedly refused to investigate including; “Cases of abuse of office, corruption against the suspended CBN Governor, Godwin Emiefelie; case of abuse of office and corruption against NNPC GMD Myele Kyari; case of abuse of office and corruption against former MD of NDDC, Effiong Akwa; case of abuse of office and corruption by the former Accountant General; case of abuse of office and corruption and non-declaration of Assets against the MD and all the Directors in PHCN; case of abuse of office and corruption against the former MD of Nirsal; case of abuse of office and corruption against former Minister of Aviation; case of abuse of office and false declaration of assets against Deputy Governor of CBN Kingsley Obiora, and the case of abuse of office and corruption against the former permanent secretary Ministry of Education, Sonny Echono.
“Others are cases of abuse of office and corruption against former Secretary, Nigerian University Commission, cases of abuse of office and corruption against Permanent Secretary, Director of Procurement and Director of Finance Ministry of Power and lastly cases of abuse of office against the permanent secretary and several Directors of Ministry of Works, among others.”
