Justice Abdu Kafarati of the Federal High Court, Abuja, has granted two civil society organizations leave to sue the Code of Conduct Bureau, CCB, for failure to comply with provisions of the Freedom of Information Act, FOI, 2011.
The Code of Conduct Bureau, CCB, has refused to provide details of the assets declaration of past and current elected office holders from 2011 till date, in spite of several Freedom of Information, FOI, requests to this effect.
The Senate has passed the Code of Conduct amendment bill, 2016, stripping the presidency of the powers to appoint members of the Code of Conduct Bureau, CCB as well as the Code of Conduct Tribunal, CCT.