diff --git a/components/odh-notebook-controller/controllers/notebook_network.go b/components/odh-notebook-controller/controllers/notebook_network.go
index 2d6919a8ac1..83ec535a115 100644
--- a/components/odh-notebook-controller/controllers/notebook_network.go
+++ b/components/odh-notebook-controller/controllers/notebook_network.go
@@ -128,7 +128,7 @@ func CompareNotebookNetworkPolicies(np1 netv1.NetworkPolicy, np2 netv1.NetworkPo
 }
 
 // NewNotebookNetworkPolicy defines the desired network policy for Notebook port
-func NewNotebookNetworkPolicy(notebook *nbv1.Notebook, log logr.Logger, namespace: string) *netv1.NetworkPolicy {
+func NewNotebookNetworkPolicy(notebook *nbv1.Notebook, log logr.Logger, namespace string) *netv1.NetworkPolicy {
 	npProtocol := corev1.ProtocolTCP
 	if err != nil {
 		log.Error(err, "Get controller / main namespace error, not creating NetworkPolicy resource that allows all ingress traffic to the oauth port of a notebook from main namespace")