Umar disclosed this in Abuja on Wednesday when the Senate Committee on Anti- Corruption, visited him for their oversight and to assess the performance of 2015 budget as build up to 2016 appropriation for the tribunal to perform optimally.
He said: “The greatest challenge facing the tribunal at the moment is the near total lack of adequate funding to cater for great deal of logistics to move the tribunal from place to place to dispense justice.
The chairman affirmed that the tribunal staff, files, vehicles and other item are required to physically move around from state to state for the exercise and that has been capital intensive.
He, however, drew the attention of the Senate Committee on the placement of the tribunal as superior court of record and increase in the number of judges for swift adjudication via constitutional amendment.
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He suggested that the provision relating to the tribunal be transferred from the 5th Schedule to chapter VII of the constitution where other superior courts are listed.
He equally suggested for amendment of the constitution to allow increase in number of judges of the tribunal to reflect the six geo-political zones, to effectively and efficiently clear all cases with area of it jurisdiction.
Utazi said the Committee was interested in making the institution perform optimally not to witch-hunt anybody. He added the movement of the court for itinerant session has to be discontinued by the Tribunal establishing it presence across the geo-political zones of the country.
He called on the CCT’s management to give more attention to publicity for its activities to be heard all over the country via advocacy and media campaign to bring to the consciousness of the public of the consequence of Code of Conduct infractions.
He said emphasis should be given to prevention of crime, rather than punitive mechanism as the case in advance clans.