Azuka Azinge,the embattled acting Registrar-General of the Corporate Affairs Commission, has formally handed over the affairs of the commission to the the Director, Incorporated Trustee, CAC Hajiya Saratu Shafii.
Informed Source who did was not officially permitted to speak confirmed to BusinessDay that the former Acting Registrar General did the hand over on Monday in Abuja.
The decision to hand over followed an order by the Code of Conduct Tribunal that Azinge should be suspended as the Acting Registrar-General of the CAC.
The CCT said she is being charged based on “alleged infraction of asset declarations.”
The CCT said the order suspending Azinge was issued on December 24, 2019, by the Umar Danladi-led three-man tribunal based on an ex parte application by the Federal Government, through the Code of Conduct Bureau.
The ex parte application was earlier filed before the CCT by the CCB on December 17.
The CCT’s order reads in part, “That defendant/respondent step aside as the Acting Registrar General of Corporate Affairs Commission over allegation of contravening provision of Code of Conduct Bureau and Tribunal Act CAP C1 LFN 2004 pending the hearing and determination of Motion on notice dated on the 17th day of December 2019.”
The tribunal had directed the Minister of Trade and Industry and the Chairman of the Board of Corporate Affairs Commissions to execute the order of suspension which is to subsist pending the hearing and the determination of the motion on notice.
Speaking on the development, the source who pleaded not to be named as he was not officially permitted to speak on the matter said Azinge did the hand over to Shafii in compliance of the order of the CCT.
HARRISON EDEH, ABUJA
