– NLC, TMG have told the Nigerian Senate not amend the CCT and CCB establishment act
– According to NLC, TMG the move to amend CCT, CCB law is an attempt to scuttle Senate president Bukola Saraki’s trial
– Femi Falana urged Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, not to lend his weight to the proposed amendment
Senate president, Bukola Saraki, is facing corruption charges at CCT
The Nigerian senate and its President, Bukola Saraki has come under heavy attack from Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Femi Falana (SAN), Transition Monitoring Group (TMG) over its plan to amend the Senate of the Act establishing the Code of Conduct Bureau (CCB) and the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT).
According to NLC, TMG and Falana, the move is an attempt to scuttle Senate president Bukola Saraki’s trial.
NLC said while the intention of the Senate might be noble and in line with their legislative function, the timing of the amendment calls to question the real intentions of the upper house.
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“It is quite intriguing that it took the trial of the Senate president for the Senate to discover the flaws in the law(s). Putting it bluntly, despite the spirited defences by the deputy Senate president to the contrary, not a few believe that this legislative move is a desperate attempt to scuttle the trial of the Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, at CCT.
“On our part, we do not think the privileges of the Senate president extend to exemptions from civil or criminal trials. At the moment, only the President and his deputy, the governor and their deputies enjoy this privilege. Thus, what the Senate is trying to do is no more than a legislative ambush.”
On its part, TMG urged the Senate to halt the desecration of the upper chamber of the National Assembly with the amendment.
“As far as we are concerned, Saraki’s trial at the CCT is his personal business. It is, therefore, a vexatious affront on the sensibilities of Nigerians that the weight of the legislature would be brought to bear in this disturbing attempt at given him political rehabilitation.
“TMG frowns at this gangster approach to legislative business.”
Falana however advised the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, not to lend his weight to the proposed amendment by the Senate.
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Falana told Dogara that the proposed amendments were illegal and unconstitutional.
He argued that where the constitution already made provisions for an Act the National Assembly is seeking to amend, such new provisions would be regarded as invalid, duplication and inoperative.
He contended that the CCB and CCT Act could not be amended without first amending the constitution and advised him and other members of the House to persuade the Senate to terminate the proposed amendments.
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Falana, NLC, TMZ lambast Senate, Saraki over plot to change anti-corruption war
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