{"id":88607,"date":"2021-11-16T14:21:24","date_gmt":"2021-11-16T13:21:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=88607"},"modified":"2021-11-16T14:21:24","modified_gmt":"2021-11-16T13:21:24","slug":"cct-senate-calls-for-sufficient-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/cct-senate-calls-for-sufficient-funding\/","title":{"rendered":"CCT: Senate Calls For Sufficient Funding\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"m#msg-f:1716570401700581473\" class=\"mail-message expanded\">\n<div class=\"mail-message-header spacer\">Senate Committee on Ethics, Privileges and Public Petitions, has advocated sufficient funding of the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT) to enable it adjudicate on corruption related cases.<\/div>\n<div class=\"mail-message-content collapsible zoom-normal mail-show-images \">\n<div class=\"clear\">\nThe committee chairman, Senator Ayo Akinyelure, had during the 2022 budget defence of the tribunal bemoaned the meagre appropriation for the tribunal, wondering how CCT couldn\u2019t be funded enough like other anti-corruption agencies in Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>Akinyelure after listening to the budget performance of CCT for the year 2021 and the projection for 2022, noted that the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has a core agenda of tackling corruption which the CCT is strategic partner, insisting that the budget envelope was too small for effective operation of the agency.<\/p>\n<p>The lawmaker wondered how the tribunal that was supposed to serve the entire country with public officers working in over 900 agencies of government be so underfunded at a time that erring public servants should be made to account for their deeds.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou must determine all the cases referred to you and let Mr President know that you are promoting his anti-corruption agenda<\/p>\n<p>&#8221; Your silence over the meagre allocation to your agency to fight corruption is not good enough for the government of President Muhammadu Buhari,\u201d Akinyelure said.<\/p>\n<p>The sum of N232 million was appropriated to CCT in 2021 out of which N174.2m was released, according to the document submitted to the senate committee.<\/p>\n<div id=\"m_5518368512640696140ymail_android_signature\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mail-message-footer spacer collapsible\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\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>Senate Committee on Ethics, Privileges and Public Petitions, has advocated sufficient funding of the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT) to enable it adjudicate on corruption related cases. 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