Buhari orders appointees to submit assets declaration form

President Muhammadu Buhari has directed all outgoing officials, elected and appointed from the Vice President downwards to collect the assets declaration form, fill, and return it to the Code of Conduct Bureau (CCB).

Buhari gave the directive while collecting his assets declaration form from the CCB Chairman, Prof. Isah Mohammed, at the Presidential Villa in Abuja on Friday, May 26.

The President said his strict adherence to the constitutional requirement of assets declaration before and after taking office was aimed at strengthening best practices, raising moral standards in Public Service, helping to build integrity, and combating corruption.

He added that no one is excluded from the Constitutional duty of assets declaration.

President Buhari said: “I signed, collected, and acknowledged receiving my form. From here, I will ask my bank manager in Kaduna to show me what has gone in and out of my account.

“Nobody is excluded from declaring their assets. I expected everyone from the Vice President downwards to follow the system.”

On his part, Mohammed said compliance by Buhari in the last eight years and the support he had given to the Bureau had enabled it to achieve 99 per cent compliance by elected and appointed officials.

He also acknowledged the support of the President in the achievement of the digitisation of its services and operations thereby helping the organisation to open investigation of cases with greater efficiency.

The Star