CCB boss tackled over alleged failure to prosecute corruption cases

A Civil Society Organization – Advocacy for Good Governance and other stakeholders have expressed disappointment over the failure of the Code of Conduct Bureau to prosecute certain high-profile corruption cases after investigations have been concluded.

The President General of the organization, Mallam Musa Yakubu, who spoke in Abuja, alleged that since the advent of the current leadership of the Bureau, Professor Mohammed Isah, the Bureau has gone into comatose.

Recall that some civil society groups such as the Coalition for a New Nigeria have recently read a riot act to President Muhammadu Buhari to focus his attention on the Bureau and do the needful.

Yakubu added that Civil Societies in Nigeria were displeased when public officers taken care of with taxpayers’ money failed to carry out their duties.

“How can the Chairman deny Nigerians the opportunity to know about the outcome of the investigation carried out about the allegations of corruption and breach of oath of office by public office holders?

“It could be recalled that sometime last year, a member of the Board of the Code of Conduct Bureau, Hon. E.J Agbonayinma, who was obviously irritated by the lacklustre performance of the Bureau dragged the Chairman to the appropriate House Committee to defend allegations bordering on incompetence and failure to forward high-profile corruption cases to the tribunal for prosecution.

“At the end of the committee hearing, the Board was mandated to go back to the drawing board and work hard to ensure that every pending high-profile corruption case was investigated and forwarded for appropriate action at the tribunal.

“Following the mandate of the House Committee, Isah actioned some of these high-profile corruption cases for investigation but to the dismay of Nigerians, the concluded cases are yet to be forwarded for prosecution by the office of the chairman.”

Agbonayinma further accused the chairman of refusal to forward the cases to the tribunal for prosecution several months after the investigations had been concluded.”