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ABUJA-The Code of Conduct Bureau said, yesterday, that 15 former governors
will soon be charged to court for lying in the assets declaration forms
they filled while in office.

Chairman of the Bureau, Mr Sam Saba, who disclosed this while briefing
newsmen in Abuja also justified the decision of the Bureau to let some
governors off the hook.

He, however, insisted that former Governor of Lagos state and leader of
the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, Asiwaju Ahmed Bola Tinubu, has a case
to answer before the conduct tribunal over allegations of operating
foreign accounts while in office.

Confirming that 15 former governors will soon be charged to court, Mr Saba
said: "I want to assure you that verification of the assets of some of the
ex-governors is still ongoing including that of those who are still in
power.

As it stands today, Borno and Plateau are the only states where we have
not requested their governors and public officers to report for
verification and this is due to the problem posed by the Boko Haram sect.
However, at the appropriate time, we will make public the outcome of our
investigations and if it is established that any of them defaulted, we
will accordingly charge them before the tribunal. But till then, we are
not ready to try anyone on the pages of the newspaper", Saba added.

He refuted allegations that the trial of Asiwaju Tinubu was a calculated
witch-hunt exercise aimed at stifling opposition leaders in the country.

According to him: "The Bureau wishes to reiterate its position that the
trial of Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu has no political undertone. It has been
an ongoing case since year 2006. Admittedly, the case has taken such a
long time due to some factors- the need to conduct thorough investigation
and the time taken to constitute the full compliment of the tribunal after
the death of the former chairman, Justice Sanni Murtala, SAN.

"The Bureau wants to use this medium to call on the good and patriotic
citizens of Nigeria to report to it any public office holder breaching the
provisions of Code of Conduct for public officers, and wish to assure you
that the Bureau has the capacity to deal with the situation no matter how
highly placed the person is.

"Of recent, the Bureau has observed with some amusement, the campaign of
calumny being perpetuated against it by a section of the press which has
been issuing some stories based on conjectures, deliberate falsehood and
sensational amplification of issues all with a view to pulling down the
institution and its structures.

"Further to the above, the issue of arraigning public officers before the
Code of Conduct Tribunal has never been an issue of the board to discuss
and take decisions. There are structures on the ground established by the
board to carry out that responsibility; the `assets verification
committee' and the `petition screening committee'. Any officer that is
established to have breached any provisions of the code of conduct for
public officers after diligent investigation by any of the above
committees is referred to the legal unit of the bureau for prosecution
before the Code of Conduct Tribunal. So why should the case of Bola Ahmed
Tinubu be different?

"Also it should be noted that the case of Bola Ahmed Tinubu, which had
started since the year 2006, had pre-dated the coming of the present board
which was inaugurated in April 2010.

However, if the chairman is said to be taking a central position in the
activities of the bureau vis-`a-vis the case of Bola Ahmed Tinubu that is
very understandable because he is the chairman of the organization and its
principal spokesman. This however should not be maliciously misconstrued
as disagreement between him and the federal commissioners."

It will be recalled that Tinubu was on September 21, docked before a 3-man
panel of justices at the Code of Conduct Tribunal sequel to allegations
that he operated 10 foreign accounts whilst in office between 1999 and
2007.

Meanwhile, the CCB boss who spoke yesterday alongside four commissioners
of the Bureau, also adduced reasons why some former governors who were
ab-initio accused of violating the Code of Conduct for Public officers
whilst they were in office, would no longer face prosecution.

Saba said the CCB decided to drop the cases against the ex-governors after
they admitted guilt and made restitution to the Federal Government, even
as he specifically named the former governor of Jigawa State, Saminu
Turaki, among those that benefitted from the said process. He declined to
reveal the identity of other indicted ex-governors who embraced the
`plea-bargain' option.

--
Brad Foster
Africa Monitor
STRATFOR

Okay

Yes sir. An unrepentant thief

Tinubu is a big thief.

Even thieves dey call am thief sef

Yes sir,a phantom thief

This is akin to asking do female anopheles mosquitoes suck blood?

The Kriminal, masterminded alot of killings and assassinations...

He subjugated the Afonja Brigade of miscreants by FEAR ..intimidation and even outright bullying.

This is a person that wants to rule ...NEVER!!

JAGADEATH WILL NEVER BE PRESIDENT.

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M4A1carbine:
The Kriminal, masterminded alot of killings and assassinations...

He subjugated the Afonja Brigade of miscreants by FEAR ..intimidation and even outright bullying.

This is a person that wants to rule ...NEVER!!

JAGADEATH WILL NEVER BE PRESIDENT.

And he likes shady guys too

Za advocate

You are asking if Tinubu is a Thief? No he is an armed-robber

M4A1carbine:
The Kriminal, wont even be able to campaign sef....The rigours of campaign will do the needful.

No need to stress it..

JagaDeath will never be PRESIDENT.

Five months of campaign may knock off Tinubu patapata. I pity him in advance.

floret23:
Five months of campaign may knock off Tinubu patapata. I pity him in advance.

Exactly

Children of hate, anger, frustration and depression

etrouble:
Children of hate, anger, frustration and depression

Toh .

Is that all ?