Tinubu names three new CCB board members

President Bola Tinubu has nominated three new members to fill existing vacancies on the board of the Code of Conduct Bureau.

“The announcement was made in a formal letter addressed to the Senate President,” Tinubu’s Special Adviser on Information and Strategy, Mr. Bayo Onanuga, disclosed this in a statement on Tuesday titled ‘President Tinubu nominates three new board members for the Code of Conduct Bureau.’

The nominees are Fatai Ibikunle from Oyo State, Kennedy Ikpeme from Cross River, and Justice Ibrahim Buba, a retired judge of the Federal High Court.

They will constitute the bureau’s 10-member board to “Enhance oversight mechanisms,” said Onanuga.

Established in 1979, the Code of Conduct Bureau is critical in maintaining integrity within public service and ensuring compliance with the country’s ethical standards.

The Code of Conduct Bureau and Tribunal Act, Chapter 58 LFN 1990 mandates the Bureau to among other things, receive asset declarations by public officers, examine the declaration, retain custody of such declarations and make them available for inspection by any citizen of Nigeria on such terms and conditions as the National Assembly may prescribe.

On October 23, 2024, President Tinubu swore in the chairman of the board, Dr. Abdullahi Bello.

The current board includes Muritala Kankia, E J Agbomayinma, Ben Umeano, and Prof. Juwayriyya Badamasiuy.

Other members are Mr. Bulus Zephaniah and Abdulsalam Olawale.

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