Ministers In My Gov't Must Publicly Declare Their Assets — Buhari
The President-elect, Muhammadu Buhari has said that those seeking political appointments in his administration must be ready to declare their assets before taking office and before leaving, the Punch reports.
Buhari who was speaking during an interview with Sahara TV on Sunday, added that he would encourage accountability and reduce corruption.
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“All those that were governors, ministers, permanent secretaries, head of foreign staff and all those with political appointments will have to declare their assets on the assumption of their appointment and definitely with the courts. And once they leave they have to re-declare their assets.”
"Last-minute defectors would not be given appointments in my government, and I would not interfere with the judiciary in the fight against corruption but would strengthen the nation’s justice system.
"My administration would not “become embroiled in investigation of every ministry, and then the government will not have time to move forward.”
The President-elect, according to Punch lambasted the Minister of Finance, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, for the depletion of the Excess Crude Account.
Okonjo-Iweala had said a significant portion of the billions of dollars drained from ECA over the past two years was distributed to governors instead of being saved for a rainy day
However, Buhari said the finance minister’s excuse was not acceptable.
“I’m afraid the finance minister has no cause to complain because the governors cannot force the central government to act outside the constitution,” he said.
On the contentious issue of oil block ownership and an equitable distribution of the country’s wealth, he suggested that partisan politics in Nigeria was the cause of the uneven distribution in the oil sector.
Buhari said that he wanted to formalise the oil sector in the country.
He said that the “proliferation of oil fields to people who don’t even know what it is, is one of the messes partisan politics has brought.”
Source: Punchng.com
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