MANDATE AND POWERS OF THE BUREAU

 

The Code of Conduct Bureau and Tribunal Act, Chapter 56 LFN 1990 gave the Bureau the mandate to establish and maintain a high standard of public morality in the conduct of Government Business and to ensure that the actions and behaviour of public

officers conform to the highest standard of public morality and accountability. To implement the above mandate, Section 3, part 1 of the Third Schedule to the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria has provided an enabling legal environment for the Bureau to:

(a) receive declarations by public officers under paragraph 12 of part 1 of the Fifth Schedule to the Constitution.

(b) examine the declarations in accordance with the requirements of the Code of Conduct or any Law;

(c) 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;

(d) ensure compliance with and, where appropriate, enforce the provisions of the Code of Conduct or any law relating thereto;

(e) receive complaints about non-compliance with or breach of the provisions of the Code of Conduct or any law in relation thereto, investigate the complaints   and, where appropriate, refer such matters to the Code of Conduct Tribunal.

(f) Appoint, promote, dismiss and exercise disciplinary control over the staff of the Code of Conduct Bureau in accordance with the provisions of an Act of the  National Assembly enacted in that behalf; and   

(g) Carry out such other functions as may be conferred upon it by the National Assembly.