Isa Mohammed, chairman of the
Code of Conduct Bureau (CCB), says nothing will prevent him from prosecuting
any public official found wanting.
Mohammed said this on Thursday
while speaking with journalists on the sidelines of a retreat for CCB’s board,
management and state directors in Abuja.
The CCB chairman said the retreat
was an avenue to address the challenges confronting the bureau.
When asked if the bureau had
plans to refer any serving governor or minister to the Code of Conduct Tribunal
(CCT) for prosecution, he responded: “As far as I am concerned, there is
nothing that can stand on my way from prosecuting anybody that is found
wanting,” he said.
“At the end of the retreat, every
bit of problem in the Code of Conduct Bureau, we are going to discuss, and we
are going to see to the solutions we are going to provide.
“We want to re-strategise and
reposition the CCB for effective discharge of its mandate. Ever since we came
in, the idea of having a retreat within the board members, management and state
directors had been mooted.”
Mohammed lamented that the bureau
has not performed well in 30 years.
“We want to look at ourselves and
tell ourselves the truth why the CCB has not been able to perform over the last
30 years that it has been in place,” he said.
“Since we have been talking about
the issue of corruption and attacking it in Nigeria, CCB has been there.”
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