House Of Reps Receives Petitions Against CCT Chairman

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The House of Representatives has received two petitions indicting the chairman of the Code of Conduct Tribunal, CCT, Danladi Umar, for alleged impropriety and abuse of office in the discharge of his duties.
While one petition was requesting the House to investigate alleged acts of impropriety purportedly committed by Umar, the other requested the House to investigate the office of the Attorney General of the Federation for its failure to act on investigations conducted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC indicting Umar of corruption.

The two petitions were presented on the floor of the House by the Chairman of the House Committee on Army, Rima Kwewum, on behalf of the authors, Anti-Corruption Network.
In the first petition signed by Ajufo I. Ajufo, the executive secretary of the group, Umar is alleged by the group to have violated the due process mechanism in the discharge of his duties especially in the award of contracts.
He was accused of, among other things, to have misused public funds by allowing to be paid, N1 million void payment with voucher CCT/ABJ/DC/206/11 on July 14, 2011 for his wedding plans.
He is also alleged to have approved the payment of N4.2 million to Chinox Global Investment Limited for the “replacement of external security light bulbs.”

A separate petition to the House alleged negligence on the part of the Office of the Attorney General in prosecuting Umar as recommended by the EFCC.
The group revealed that the erstwhile EFCC chairman, Ibrahim Lamorde, on June 24, 2014, submitted the report of an investigation to the office of the AG with Ref. No.: EFCC/EC/ JUS/07/117.


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