President Buhari directs outgoing officials to collect, fill out assets declaration form

President Muhammad Buhari has directed that all out-going officials, elected and appointed from the Vice President downwards must collect the assets declaration form, fill and return it.

Buhari gave the order upon collecting his from Professor Isah Mohammed, the Chairman of the Code of Conduct Bureau, in Abuja on Friday.

The President in a statement by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu said no one is excluded from the Constitutional duty of assets declaration.

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

“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.”

Earlier, Professor Mohammed said compliance by the President in the last eight years and the support he had given to the Bureau had enabled it to achieve 99% compliance by elected and appointed officials.

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