President Muhammadu 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 as he has done.
The President gave the directive on Friday in Abuja while speaking after collecting his form from Professor Isah Mohammed, the Chairman of the Code of Conduct Bureau (CCB).
President Buhari said no one was excluded from the constitutional duty of assets declaration.
He 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.
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“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,” he said in a statement released by his media aide, Malam Garba Shehu.
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.
He also acknowledged the support of the President Buhari in the achievement of the digitization of its services and operations thereby helping the organisation to open investigation of cases with greater efficiency.
