{"id":43973,"date":"2015-11-20T15:09:42","date_gmt":"2015-11-20T14:09:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=43973"},"modified":"2015-11-20T15:09:42","modified_gmt":"2015-11-20T14:09:42","slug":"senate-investigates-cct-chairman-over-n10-bribery-allegation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/senate-investigates-cct-chairman-over-n10-bribery-allegation\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate investigates CCT chairman over N10 bribery Allegation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki <span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_606448354\"><span class=\"aQJ\">on Thursday<\/span><\/span> requested the Senate\u00a0Committee on Ethics, Privileges and Public Petitions to investigate a\u00a0petition filed against the Chairman of the Code of Conduct Tribunal, CCT,\u00a0Mr. Danladi Umar.<\/p>\n<p>Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Senator from Ebonyi State, Obinna Ogba had\u00a0submitted the petition bordering on alleged corruption and abuse of office\u00a0by the CCT Chairman.<\/p>\n<p>The ethics committee is expected to submit its report to the Upper Chamber\u00a0in two weeks.<\/p>\n<p>It could be recalled that Saraki is standing trial in the CCT on alleged\u00a013 count charge bothering on false declaration of assets when he was\u00a0governor of Kwara state from 2007 to 2013<\/p>\n<p>It\u00a0 could also be recalled that a civil society organisation, Human Rights\u00a0Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA), on Tuesday last week petitioned\u00a0the Senate over N10 million bribery scam involving the Chairman of Code of\u00a0Conduct Tribunal (CCT), Mr. Danladi Umar.<\/p>\n<p>The group also said it had sent the petition to the House of\u00a0Representatives, promising to also petition President Muhammadu Buhari\u00a0over the matter.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki on Thursday requested the Senate\u00a0Committee on Ethics, Privileges and Public Petitions to investigate a\u00a0petition filed against the Chairman of the Code of Conduct Tribunal,&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43974,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exclusive"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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