President Bola Tinubu is presiding over the nineteenth assembly of the Federal Government Council on the council chambers of the State Home, Abuja.
Wednesday’s assembly is his first since coming back from a two-week trip in the UK and France.
The final session was held on September 23, 2024.
Vice President Kashim Shettima isn’t attending the assembly as he’s representing Nigeria on the Commonwealth Heads of Authorities Assembly in Samoa.
In the meantime, Ministers of Finance, Mr. Wale Edun, and Energy, Mr. Adebayo Adelabu, are additionally absent as they’re at present attending the IMF and World Financial institution conferences in Washington, D.C., USA.
The Ministers of International Affairs, Yusuf Tuggar; Aviation and Aerospace Growth, Festus Keyamo; Atmosphere, Balarabe Lawal; and the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, are additionally away for different nationwide assignments.
Earlier than the assembly kicked off, Tinubu swore in Dr Abdullahi Bello as the brand new Chairman of the Code of Conduct Bureau.
Bello was appointed Chairman of the Code of Conduct Bureau on March 28, 2024.
He succeeded Prof Isah Mohammed, whom former President Muhammadu Buhari appointed in November 2018.
After the ceremony, Bello emphasised the significance of integrity and accountability amongst public servants and promised to uphold the Bureau’s mandate.
He argued that Nigeria has the required techniques and establishments to fight corruption and he intends to leverage know-how to make sure integrity and stop corruption.
Bello instructed journalists, “I need to guarantee Mr. President and the individuals of Nigeria that I’ll do my greatest to ensure that I take care of this big activity that’s forward of me.
“Such as you talked about, Code of Conduct Bureau is the foremost anti-corruption company, the primary anti-corruption company in Nigeria and I intend to ship on the mandates of the Bureau.
“It’s all about ensuring that individuals, public servants, behave with integrity, they keep away from corruption, no battle of pursuits.”
He promised to ship on integrity and accountability saying “I promise Nigerians that, Insha Allah, I’m going to do my greatest to ensure that I ship on the mandate of the Bureau.”
He additionally argued that whereas corruption is obtainable in any society, the techniques created to minimise it differentiates one society from one other.
“It doesn’t matter whether or not you might be within the UK, whether or not within the US, everyone tends to be corrupt. One of the crucial essential issues is the techniques that we have now in place to test it.
“So if we have now the techniques in Nigeria, we’re going to take care of this drawback.
“So I guarantee you that we have now the techniques, we have now the establishments, we solely must ship on the mandate that’s given to us, after which all the things might be all proper”, Bello mentioned.
The CCB was established in 1979 when the Structure supplied a listing of Codes of Conduct for public officers. Nevertheless, it solely acquired its authorized mandate in 1989 underneath the Babangida regime.
The Code of Conduct Bureau and Tribunal Act, Chapter 58 LFN 1990 mandates the Bureau to amongst different issues, obtain asset declarations by public officers, look at the declaration, retain custody of such declarations, and make them obtainable for inspection by any citizen of Nigeria on such phrases and situations because the Nationwide Meeting could prescribe.