A group, the Organisation For Global Youth Peace, Empowerment And Development Initiative (OGYPEDI), has condemned the amendment of the CCB and the CCT Acts of 2004 by the Senate.

According to group, “this move is ill-timed, self-serving and of no priority to the Nigerian masses.”

President of the group, Japhet Omene, in a statement yesterday in Benin city, called on the Senate to apologise to Nigerians for what he described as unnecessary and unwarranted amendment of the CCB and CCT Act. He stated: “By this action, the Nigerian senate has not only abuse its constituted statutory responsibilities, powers and privileges but has set the pace of retrogression for our nascent democracy as this action is capable of weakening the nation’s institutions.”
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“We believe that this amendment which has now put the appointment of the CCT Chairman and members under the control of the senate is nothing but a self serving action taken in responds to the ongoing trial of the President of the Nigerian Senate. How would it be for our country, democracy and especially for our institutions if Acts establishing institutions are amended this way subsequently and their controls placed under those they are prosecuting or the institutions are perpetually made ineffective for daring to ‘step on some toes’ in the course of discharging their statutory responsibilities?”