The Board of the Code of Conduct Bureau (CCB) led by its chairman, Mr. Sam Saba, on Monday were grilled by the Senate Committee investigating allegations about the Bureau’s abandonment of N8 billion building project for a new building it procured for N4.5bn.
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At an public hearing, the Senate committee, headed by Senator Dino Melaye, insisted that all actions and inactions the CCB’s board took in respect to bureau’s buildings were sheer waste of public funds and violation of procurement law.
The senators tore into the board of the pioneer anti-corruption agency responsible for checking corrupt practices in the public service.
Rejecting the claim made by the senate committee, CCB Chairman, Saba, absolved the board of any blame. He however, laid the blame at the door of contractor, who handled the abandoned N8bn building.
He said, “This was to put an end to an age long predicament of the CCB as the only anti-corruption agency without its own office block. The National Assembly therefore appropriated the sum of N4,430,001,179.00 in the 2016 CCB budget for the purchase of office building. The CCB in still awaiting the release of the funds.”
However, Saba’s explanation did not convince the Senators. They gave him two days to submit more relevant documents.
