CCB To Probe Amaechi, Ngige, Fashola, Malami & Others Over Assets
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The Code of Conduct Bureau has begun massive
verification of assets declared by top serving and former public
officers at the federal, state and local government levels.
A statement by the Chairman of the CCB, Mr. Sam Saba, released by the
Press and Protocol Unit of the Bureau on Thursday, stated that the
exercise involved the physical appearance of the concerned public
officers before the bureau for conference and field verifications of
their declared assets.
Conference verification requires public officers to present documents
relating to their declared assets to designated officials of the
Bureau.
On the other hand, field verification involves public officers taking
CCB officials to locations of their declared landed, fixed and other
assets that could not be conveniently moved to the bureau’s office.
He stated that by virtue of Paragraph 11 of Part 1 of the Fifth
Schedule to the 1999 Constitution (as amended), “every public officer is
required to submit to the Code of Conduct Bureau a written declaration
of all properties, assets and liabilities and those of his/her spouse
(if not a public officer) and his unmarried children under the age of 18
years.”
He added that any statement in the declaration, found to be false by
any authorities or persons authorised to verify it, “shall be deemed to
be a breach of the code”.
He stated, “To this end, the Bureau has commenced its 2016 4th
Quarter Cycle of Conference and Field Verification of Assets of top
public officers. Accordingly, letters of invitation have been dispatched
to ministers of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, service chiefs, and
other top public officers.
“All invited public officers are to note that failure to honour the
invitation by the CCB in this regard is a breach of the provisions of
the constitution and could lead to prosecution under the Code of Conduct
Tribunal.
He listed 76 public officers that had been invited by the Bureau with
a threat of the possibility of prosecution if they fail to honour the
invitation.
Among the 76 invitees are 30 ministers whom, according to the Bureau, have yet to submit themselves to the exercise.
According to the Bureau, ministers who have yet to submit themselves
for the verification are Rotimi Amaechi (Transportation); Babatunde
Fashola (Power, Works and Housing); Ibe Kachikwu (Petroleum Resources
(State); Abubakar Malami (Attorney General of the Federation and
Minister of Justice); Adebayo Shittu (Communications); Dr. Kayode Fayemi
(Solid Minerals and Steel Development); Audu Ogbeh (Agriculture and
Rural Development).
Others include Senator Aisha Alhassan (Women Affairs and Social
Development); Solomon Dalung (Youths & Sports Development); Osagie
Ehanire (Health (State)); Usani Usani (Niger Delta Affairs); Prof.
Anthony Anwukah (Education (State)); Lai Mohammed (Information and
Culture), and Gen. Ali Mansur (retd.) (Defence).
The list also includes Senator Udo Udoma (Budget and National
Planning); Ibrahim Jibril (Environment (State)); Suleiman Adamu (Water
Resources and Rural Development); Mustapha Shehuri (Power (State));
Prof. Claudius Daramola (Niger Delta Affairs (State)) and Kemi Adeosun
(Finance) as those who have not submitted themselves to verification.
The rest are Prof. Isaac Adewole (Health); Okechukwu Enelamah (Trade,
Investment and Industry); Geoffrey Onyema (Foreign Affairs ); Muhammadu
Bello (Federal Capital Territory); Senator Hadi Sirika (Aviation
(State)); Hajiya Khadija Bukar (Foreign Affairs(State)); Senator Chris
Ngige (Labour and Employment); Heineken Lokpobiri (Agriculture and Rural
Development (State)); Dr. Ogbonnaya Onu (Science and Technology); and
Abubakar Bwari (Solid Minerals (State) ).
The rest of the public officers still expected to submit themselves
to the bureau are the Governor, Central Bank of Nigeria, Godwin
Emefiele; Head of Service of the Federation, Mrs. Oyo-Ita Ekanem; Chief
of Defence Staff, Gen. Abayomi Olanishakin; Chief of Air Staff, Air Vice
Marshal Abubakar Sadique; and the Chief of Naval Staff, Vice Admiral
Ibas Ibok.
Also on the list are the immediate past Inspector-General of Police,
Mr. Solomon Arase; Chairman, Police Service Commission, Chief Mike
Okiro; Controller-General of Nigeria Immigration Service, Babatunde
Mohammed; Executive Secretary of Nigeria Extractive Industries
Transparency Initiative, Waziri Adio; Director-General of National
Pension Commission, Mrs. Chinelo Amazu; and Executive Director/Chief
Executive Officer, Export Promotion Council, Mr. Olusegun Awolowo.
Also yet to turn up for the CCB verification are the
Director-General, National Youth Service Corps, Brig.-Gen. Sule Kazaure;
Executive Secretary, Nigeria Sao-Tome & Principle Joint Development
Authority, Kashim Tumash; Group Managing Director, Nigerian National
Petroleum Corporation, Maikanti Baru; Controller-General of Federal Fire
Service, Anebi Garba; Director-General, Budget and National Planning,
Mr. Ben Akabueze, and Managing Director, Nigeria Deposit Insurance
Commission, Ibrahim Umaru.
Others include the Executive Secretary of National Universities
Commission, Prof. Abubakar Adamu; Managing Director, Nigerian Ports
Authority, Mrs. Hadiza Usman; Managing Director, Asset Management
Corporation of Nigeria, Ahmed Kuru, and Controller-General of MSCDS,
Muhammad Abdullahi.
The Deputy Inspectors-General of Police, who are on the list, are
Ntom Chukwu, Folusho Adebanjo, Emmanuel Inyang, Maigari Dikko, Joshak
Habila, Shuaibu Gambo, and Hyacinth Dagala.
An Assistant Inspector-General of Police, Abdul Bube, is also on the list.
Military officers, whose names appear on the list, are Real Admiral
Joseph Osa (Commandant, Operation Delta Safe) and Major General M. A.
Koleoso (GOC Tradoc).
The CCB also listed a number of Federal Commissioners of the Civil
Service Commission and three Group Executive Directors of the NNPC, who
are yet to submit themselves to the CCB’s verification.
In the statement, the CCB stated that the Chief of Army Staff, Lt.
Gen. Tukur Buratai, and five other ministers, among 15 other former and
serving public officers, had submitted themselves to the asset
verification.
Buratai recently became the target of scathing public scrutiny when
reports of his choice $1.5m properties, which he claimed were acquired
in the name of his wife in Dubai, hit the public space.
Saba confirmed to our correspondent on the telephone that all the 15
persons, whose assets had been verified, had been issued a certificate
of Conference Verification/Field Verification.
“The Chief of Army Staff was the first to be issued his certificate. We started issuing to others last week,” he said.
Responding to further inquiry about whether the certificate issued by
the CCB implied that the cleared public officers were free from
liability of criminal prosecution, Saba stated, “Even though the
tribunal (Code of Conduct Tribunal) is the institution with the power of
adjudication in asset declaration breaches, the certificate means that
from our own end, we are satisfied with the verification that we have
done.”
The five cleared ministers are Abdulrahman Dambazau (Interior);
Zainab Shamsuna (Budget & National Planning); Adamu Adamu
(Education); Aisha Abubakar (Minister of Trade, Investment &
Industry (State)); and Amina Mohammed (Minister of Environment).
The rest of the former and serving public officers already cleared by
the CCB are the immediate past Secretary of the Government of the
Federation, Pius Anyim; Chairman, Independent National Electoral
Commission, Prof. Yakubu Mahmood; a former Executive Secretary of the
NUC, Prof. Julius Okojie, and a former Controller-General, Nigerian
Prisons Service, Ezenwa Peter.
They also include the Acting MD/CEO, Niger Delta Development
Commission, Semenitari Tamunoibim; Controller-General, Nigeria Customs
Service, Col. Ibrahim Ali (retd.); Inspector-General of Police, Ibrahim
Idris; Corps Marshal, Federal Road Safety Corps, Boboye Oyeyemi; and
Federal Commissioner, Civil Service Commission, Hope Ikrirko.
The CCB boss commended those that had turned up for the exercise.
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