Senate Committee on Public
Petitions, Ethics and Privileges has started screening of nominees for the Code
of Conduct Bureau (CCB) without security report as required by the act of the
Bureau.
Though, two of the nominees were
absent, seven of them were led to the screening Committee room by the Senior
Special Assistant to the President on National Assembly Matters (Senate),
Senator Ita Enang.
Committee Chairman, Senator
Samuel Anyanwu in his opening address acknowledged that it was a tradition for
political appointees facing National Assembly screening to have been firstly
screened by the DSS and Police.
He, therefore, sought the consent
of Committee members to lower the bar to enable the screening to proceed.
“Distinguished colleagues, you
know we don’t screen nominees without receiving security reports on them, but
in this case, we have not.”
“I wish to seek your consent as
colleagues before we could proceed in anticipation of security report on the
nominees”, Anyanwu said.
Meanwhile, Senator Ita Enang has
assured the committee that security reports would be made available as soon as
they are ready.
He explained that nominees have
fulfilled section (1)(122 & 4) of the Code of Conduct Bureau Act, adding
that they have also consulted their individual Senators who represented their
districts.
Those nominated by President
Muhammadu Buhari to serve on the board of Code of Conduct Bureau are:
Dr. Mohammed Isah
Murtala Kankia
Emmanuel Attah
Mr.Danjuma Sado
Mr. Ubolo I. Okpanachi
Ken Madaki Alkali
Prof. Ogundare Samuel Folorunsho
Hon. Ganiyu Hamza absent
Saad Abubakar
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