The House of Representatives has passed for second reading a bill seeking to prevent a sitting judge from appearing before the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT).
The bill, sponsored by Solomon Bob (PDP, Rivers), seeks to amend the Code of Conduct and Tribunal Act.
The bill was passed for second reading on Wednesday after the debate on its general principle.
The bill seeks to amend sections 20 and 24 of the principal act to protect judicial officers from arbitrary prosecution and removal from office.
Section 20 is amended to read, “There is hereby established a tribunal to be known as the Code of Conduct Tribunal (in this Act referred to as “the Tribunal”) which shall be a superior court of record with exclusive jurisdiction to try offences under this act.”
The second proposal seeks to amend section 24 by adding subsections 5 and 6 by prohibiting the trial of sitting judicial officers.
Proposed subsection (5) reads “Nothing in this act shall permit the commencement…
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