Justice Binta Nyako of
the Federal High Court, Abuja has sacked the Chairman of the Code of
Conduct Bureau (CCB) Sam Saba and nine other members of the
organisation’s board.
Justice Nyako in a judgment Friday held that the five-year tenure of the CCB board expired on April 2015.
The
judgment was on a suit marked: FHC/ABJ/CS/411/2016 filed by a group –
Kingdom Human Rights Foundation International (KGRFI) led by Okere
Nnamdi.
Justice Nyako was of the view that by virtue of section
155 (1) (c) and Paragraph 1, Part 1, Third Schedule of the 1999
Constitution (as amended), Saba and others, all of whom were appointed
in 2010, were only entitled to stay in office for five years.
The
judge declined to issue an order compelling the President to remove and
replace Saba and the nine other board members, as prayed by the
plaintiff.
She however, directed the AGF to advise the President on the state of the tenure of members of the CCB board.
Edited from The Nation