The House of Representatives agreed with the Senate to remove Umar Danladi, Chairman of the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT).
The vote followed a motion raised by the Majority Leader of the House, Julius Ihonvbere, on Tuesday.
Ihonvbere’s motion requested that the House invoke Section 17(3) of the Fifth Schedule of the 1999 Constitution. He cited some of the CCT chairman’s crimes, including a public scuffle with a security officer at Abuja’s Banex Plaza Shopping Complex.
The motion read:
“Aware of the conduct of the Chairman, Code of Conduct Tribunal, who recently engaged in a public brawl with a security guard at the Banex Plaza Shopping Complex, which necessitated an invitation from the Senate Committee on Ethics, Code of Conduct, and Public Petitions, and after his first appearance, where he admitted to having been involved in the brawl, he refused to attend subsequent sittings, thereby frustrating the efforts of the Committee to investigate the allegations against him.”
In his motion, Ihonvbere stated that Danladi Umar’s removal “seems to be the only way out to safeguard the sacred image of the Code of Conduct Tribunal, in line with the resolution of the 10th National Assembly to uphold the rule of law and sustain the ideals of corporate governance structure in Nigeria.”
Following the presentation of the motion, Mansur Soro raised a constitutional point of order, stating that the House is not following proper protocol and that President Bola Tinubu should have sent a letter to the House seeking the removal of the CCT chairman.
However, Speaker Tajudeen Abbas declared him out of order.
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