While the CNPP called on well meaning Nigerians and civil society groups in the country, including the Nigerian Labour Congress, NLC, and the Trade Union Congress, TUC, to mount pressure on the President to withhold his assent to the said amendment, TUC described what the Senate did as a self-serving adventure designed to take Nigeria back to the stone age.
The CNPP in a statement issued yesterday and signed by its Secretary General, Chief Willy Ezugwu, said its decision was taken after a careful study of the amendment and circumstances surrounding the controversial move.
The statement read: “We are taken aback that just months after it initially suspended the move to amend the Code of Conduct Bureau, CCB and the Code of Conduct Tribunal, CCT, Act, the National Assembly subtly passed the amendment Bill into law. “When the plan by the National Assembly to amend the Act first became known to members of the public, there was deafening outcry, which forced the lawmakers to suspend the move.
“The CNPP, just like many other Nigerians, had thought that the National Assembly by the suspension of the earlier move to amend the CCT/CCB Act, was a sign of good days ahead where the lawmakers respected the majority opinion of their respective constituencies. “But the subtle passage of the amendment Bill is an indication that the National Assembly is serving the interest of its principal officers, and not that of the Nigerian people who unfortunately elected this crop of lawmakers, who are so insensitive to the core issues bothering the ordinary citizens.”
The CNPP in a statement issued yesterday and signed by its Secretary General, Chief Willy Ezugwu, said its decision was taken after a careful study of the amendment and circumstances surrounding the controversial move.
The statement read: “We are taken aback that just months after it initially suspended the move to amend the Code of Conduct Bureau, CCB and the Code of Conduct Tribunal, CCT, Act, the National Assembly subtly passed the amendment Bill into law. “When the plan by the National Assembly to amend the Act first became known to members of the public, there was deafening outcry, which forced the lawmakers to suspend the move.
“The CNPP, just like many other Nigerians, had thought that the National Assembly by the suspension of the earlier move to amend the CCT/CCB Act, was a sign of good days ahead where the lawmakers respected the majority opinion of their respective constituencies. “But the subtle passage of the amendment Bill is an indication that the National Assembly is serving the interest of its principal officers, and not that of the Nigerian people who unfortunately elected this crop of lawmakers, who are so insensitive to the core issues bothering the ordinary citizens.”
