The Code of Conduct Bureau (CCB) has denied reports that its offices were raided by operatives of the Department of State Services (DSS) with the intention of confiscating documents potentially damaging to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and his associates.
CCB made the denial in a statement issued by the Director of Education and Advocacy Services at the Code of Conduct Bureau (CCB), Mr. Daniel Okafor.
Mr. Daniel Okafor, while responding to an online publication by Sahara Reporters on July 7, 2023, said that the report is not true.
He said that the Code of Conduct Bureau condemned the article due to its unprofessional nature and the manner in which it was composed.
According to him, the writers’ objective is to misinform and misleading the public about an event that solely existed in their imaginations.
Okafor emphatically declared that there was never a raid or search conducted by the Department of State Services (DSS) or any other entity of the Federal Government of Nigeria to locate compromising documents on the president and his associates at the CCB’s head office in Abuja, as well as its offices in various states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) contrary to what was claimed in the publication.
The statement by the CCB, therefore, urged the general public to dismiss the article as false news, lacking any truth or evidence.
Additionally, the CCB assured Nigerian people that, as a leading anti-corruption agency, it will continue to fulfill its responsibilities as outlined in paragraph 3 of Part 1 of the Third Schedule of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, as amended. Read more.
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