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Contributor [1]
Thursday, January 29, 2004 - 02:00
Categories: 
Corruption [2]
Issue Number: 
141 [3]
Article-Summary: 

Smarting from the second bribery scandal of its term, the Senate is making efforts to establish a code of conduct through which the actions and inactions of its members will be assessed. The chairman of the Senate Committee on Ethics, Privileges and Public Petitions, Senator Olorunnimbe Mamora, said his committee was perfecting the code of conduct that would serve the Senate. He said his committee would be relying on Order 96 (4c) empowering it to "recommend to the Senate from time to time su...read more [4]

Smarting from the second bribery scandal of its term, the Senate is making efforts to establish a code of conduct through which the actions and inactions of its members will be assessed. The chairman of the Senate Committee on Ethics, Privileges and Public Petitions, Senator Olorunnimbe Mamora, said his committee was perfecting the code of conduct that would serve the Senate. He said his committee would be relying on Order 96 (4c) empowering it to "recommend to the Senate from time to time such administrative actions as it may deem appropriate to establish and enforce standards of official conduct for the senators."

Category: 
Governance [5]
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http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category.php/corruption/19675 [6]
Country: 
Nigeria [7]

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