Majority Leader of the House of Representative, Femi Gbajabiamila, has again spoken out his displeasure over the House’s decision to amend the Code of Conduct Bureau, CCB, and Code of Conduct Tribunal, CCT, Act, describing the amendment as illegal and vowed that it “will not see the light of day.”
The lawmaker had openly criticised the House for passing the bill without giving members adequate notice for its debate before listing it for consideration at the committee of the whole during which he was not present.
The CCB, CCT amendment Act was earlier passed by the Senate, in a bid to expunge the President from CCB Act, while conferring powers over the CCB, CCT on the National Assembly
However, Gbajabiamila, in a press briefing during an end of year report on activities of the House over the weekend in Abuja, maintained that the amendment to the CCB Act was an “error” and “unconstitutional”, adding that “the House should have reversed itself having perpetrated brazen illegality.”
His earlier attempt to revisit the bill was thwarted when Speaker Yakubu Dogara put his proposal to a vote and lawmakers kicked against it.
He added, “Sometimes some things slip through the cracks. That is why I brought a motion to debate it again when I discovered the error. It is unconstitutional.
“It is not going to see the light of day. It is pertinently unconstitutional,” he said.
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