Nigeria’s Senate President and former governor of Kwara State, Bukola Saraki, will begin a fresh bid to get himself out of corruption claims filed against him by the The Code of Conduct Bureau (CBC). The CBC slammed a 13-count charge of corruption on Saraki, whose wife, Toyin had to answer for corruption allegations at anti-graft agency, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission in July. In charge number ABT/01/15, dated September 11 and filed before the Code of Conduct Tribunal, Saraki is accused of offences which include anticipatory declaration of assets, false declaration of assets in forms he filed before the Code of Conduct Bureau while he was governor of Kwara state.
According to the charges, obtained by online news outfit, PREMIUM TIMES Wednesday morning, the Senate President is also accused of failing to declare some assets he acquired while in office as governor.
Among other offences, including allegedly acquiring assets beyond his legitimate earnings, Saraki is also accused of operating foreign accounts while being a public officer – governor and senator.
The offences, the charge said, violated sections of the Fifth Schedule of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999, as amended.
Saraki is also said to have breached Section 2 of the Code of Conduct Bureau and Tribunal Act and punishable under paragraph 9 of the said Fifth Schedule of the Constitution. The charges were prepared by M.S. Hassan, a deputy director in the office of the Attorney General of the Federation. It is not clear on Wednesday morning whether the document had been served on Mr. Saraki, Nigeria’s number three man. Read full charges below:
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Posted: at 16-09-2015 06:16 AM (9 years ago) | Addicted Hero
Ritabrenice at 16-09-2015 07:02 AM (9 years ago) (f)
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Posted: at 16-09-2015 07:02 AM (9 years ago) | Gistmaniac
All these were committed while he was governor. So this guy during his tenure as governor thief money wey fit build a small country?? Who knows how much him plan to thief now as Senate president? God have mercy!! , why are we cursed with greedy and selfish politicians??
Posted: at 16-09-2015 07:46 AM (9 years ago) | Hero
I can categorically tell u dat NIGERIA has the potential to be more developed and sophisticated than the so called USA. We have the resources we have everything, but na greedy politicians dey kill us. Check out all the money wey past leaders thief frm naija,.. Abacha, and Co. It's enuf to send this country to shambles, but no skin pain. People still dey thief more and more. All these money, if channeled to the development of this country, I swear by my forefathers that we would be one of the most developed countries in the world. But sadly it's not the case... Politicians only think of themselves and their children, them no send this country. Maka Chukwu, e no go better for all of them. Chineke kpo kwa ha oku!
Posted: at 16-09-2015 07:55 AM (9 years ago) | Hero
kabu-kabu at 16-09-2015 07:57 AM (9 years ago) (m)
yoroba must be destroyed![/color] In the history of that "devil's kitchen" they call nigeria, those hausa (housefly) lines men called yoroba whose linens are soaked in the abominable blood os swines has been the architects and axis of evil in that domain of confusion. ... bankole, tafa balogun, bode george, abiola (ITT firm), tinubu, fashola, akintola, to infinity; just check out the real situation here, has there been anything good coming out of human pariahs? Rape, manipulation and connivance with evil, avarice, stealing, false witnessing, deception, fake prophets, and staged up miracle workers, drug peddling, terrorism, document forgery (oluwole) gangsterism (alaiye), armed robbery, land grabbing, prostitution, duping, double standard, untrustworthy, aggression, all and much more are all encoded in their identity. Are the yorobas of any good to the human race? yoroba must be destroyed! [/color]
Posted: at 16-09-2015 07:57 AM (9 years ago) | Upcoming
PoliticxGuru at 16-09-2015 07:57 AM (9 years ago) (m)
Quote from: elchymo on 16-09-2015 07:46 AM
All these were committed while he was governor. So this guy during his tenure as governor thief money wey fit build a small country?? Who knows how much him plan to thief now as Senate president? God have mercy!! , why are we cursed with greedy and selfish politicians??
Na small small e dey start lets start wit Naijapals investigation
Posted: at 16-09-2015 07:57 AM (9 years ago) | Hero
ngorgoya4real at 16-09-2015 08:27 AM (9 years ago) (m)
I am not surprised by that because i know if the appropriate thing had been done he wont have gotten to this extend, and beside where were the so called agencies when all these was goin on or where they brain washed? Corruption has eaten down in the society and the president da Nigeria; if Buhari as per said is so serious and ready to fight corruption it will reverse one way or the other back to himself. You can imagine how the level of selffish and inhuman people that we have in this country call Nigeria, looting of local, state and federal Government monies every day. They have looter to the extend that their 10th generation to come will not even have anything to do with poverty and Buhari on his own part should start doin something about it.
Posted: at 16-09-2015 08:27 AM (9 years ago) | Upcoming
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