The Code of Conduct Bureau (CCB) has indicated it has the
statutory powers to investigate assets declared by any sitting President and
governors in Nigeria and will do so when the need arises.
The Bureau said the assets declared by President Muhammadu
Buhari and governors can be subjected to its investigation because they are not
exempted from its mandate of ensuring that public servants are not allowed to
live above their legitimate means.
A Federal Commissioner of the Bureau in charge of
Monitoring, Ehiozuwa Johnson Agbonayema made this known to journalists during
his team’s monitoring visit to the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT) in Abuja.
Code of Conduct Tribunal is the law court where public
servants found to be living above legitimate means or indicted for failure to
declare assets as stipulated by law are put to trial.
Agbonayema, a former House of Representatives member warned
public officers against failure to declare their assets in accordance with the
relevant provisions of laws to avoid being caught up by the law.
He praised President Buhari for giving the Bureau free hand
to operate adding that non-interference from the Presidency has kept the body
on its toe to execute its mandate within the ambit of the law.
The Bureau expressed its renewed commitment to end the
endemic corruption among public officers, especially those living above their
legitimate means from ill-gotten wealth.
The CCB Commissioner, however, observed that the Code of
Conduct Bureau and the Code of Conduct Tribunal at present are being handcuffed
by the lean financial resources available to them to carry out their
constitutional duties but indicated their determination to deliver on mandates
of ridding Nigeria of corrupt officers.
He also affirmed that the mandate of CCB extends also to
ensuring that the President, Governors and all political office holders without
exception declare their assets and urged all Nigerians to join hands in the
fight against corruption.
He said, “Failure to declare assets is against the law and
there is nothing like I don’t know. Those that have not declared their assets
are against the Constitution. By the 14th Code of the Conduct Bureau’s mandate,
all public officers are to declare their assets. “
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