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neocortex:
It is disheartening that all you got from this article is PDP did that bullshit.
There is no law stopping Buhari himself from declaring his assets in a national daily but he chose to keep mum over it.

QED

we're waiting

Truckpusher:
Buhari right from the word go and all that saintly toga and I will pite kworofshion mantra was all nothing but lies from the pits of hell, unfortunately we have too many zombies in the society today that can't sit down and ask themselves some hard questions.

What would a Buhari be doing with a Tinubu,Obasanjo,Amaechi,Kwakwanso and all the rest of the thieving elites that decamped from the PDP to join forces with the remaining set of thieves in the ACN turned APC?

Buhari is the greatest lie ever sold to a people because of their ingrained hatred for a particular region and people.The truth is we must see that change they promised ,else it is every man to thine own tent.
Enough of running around in9 a cycle with no end in sight.

I hope Yoruba APC are happy

Firefire:
The chairman said even though the Constitution of Nigerian made it clear that the agency should make available to the citizens the assets declared by public officials, the same law vested the National Assembly with the power to decide the terms and conditions for making such materials public.

Sada explained that the CCB was ready to comply with the terms and conditions specified by the National Assembly on the matter but would only do so once the law was amended.


“Several National Assemblies have come and gone since the establishment of the CCB without addressing the matter.”


Nigeria is becoming a huge joke.

am begining to have a second thought oo,are we sure this bullhari no go corrupt wella so?this is a differential diagnosis that this guy will be corrupt.......runs into lab. To do my confirmatory!

Apc manifesto not Quran or Bibe, it can CHANGE - Buhari

badmus1346:
Political Ignoramus, please remember that Buhari made 87 promise during his Campaign...let's wait and see....

and he should fulfil d 87 in 2days

Truckpusher:
Buhari right from the word go and all that saintly toga and I will pite kworofshion mantra was all nothing but lies from the pits of hell, unfortunately we have too many zombies in the society today that can't sit down and ask themselves some hard questions.

What would a Buhari be doing with a Tinubu,Obasanjo,Amaechi,Kwakwanso and all the rest of the thieving elites that decamped from the PDP to join forces with the remaining set of thieves in the ACN turned APC?

Buhari is the greatest lie ever sold to a people because of their ingrained hatred for a particular region and people.The truth is we must see that change they promised ,else it is every man to thine own tent.
Enough of running around in a cycle with no end in sight.

In as much as your post makes some sense, you took out the credibility in it when you said: "because of their ingrained hatred for a particular region and people." That shows your mindset, your problem, and the type of person you are- tribalist!

Jesusloveyou:
pmb wil be setting record as he publically declare in less than 30days as d earliest to declare publically, as d only one that promise and never fail along with his vp and appointees.

Your grammar sucks, what is "publically"?.

Amaudeogu:
I don't see anything difficult for the president elect to declare his assets publicly if he is not hiding something from the masses...

Is that your problem now?
Do you have light?
Are you employed?
Mtcheeeeeeew

Leonidas1:
we're waiting

wait for 4yrs

ShowYourCertificate:
@Rawani & Smoothralph, for the details of Jonathan's assets, click here:


https://www.nairaland.com/71305/details-goodluck-jonathans-assets

Stop trying to be clever by half, we are not speaking of 2007 VP Jonathan that was coerced and practically forced to declare by Late Yar'adua, but the immediate past President, except you want to tell us Jonathan subverted the constitution by refusing to declare his assets along with Sambo as constitutionally required upon assumption of the office of the President. If you want to prove a point, state the past Presidents assets and networth upon assumption of office of the President, and when he stepped down.

Again the focus is on urging PMB, not blaming Jonathan, it has already been established that his lack of commitment to the whole declaration process is why we are just discovering the constitutional challenges of TRULY publicly declaring assets.

Rose2014:
But Buhari knew this before he promised during campaign to declare his asset PUBLICLY


Now he's hiding under constitution to break his own promise

If this is not scam, then tell me what scam is

Politicians using the head of the masses every 4years since 1914

So much for change

Bad belle people u think after puplicly declearing his asset it will become yours? For all of u that want to kill urself on this matter, just relax ur time will soon come. The same way u were all shamed on the election

Rawani:
Hogwash. You should have posted the remaining article.

But what is President Jonathan’s worth? That question still needs to be answered.

Since the president will not just tell us and save us and save himself the headache, we will calculate it for him.

But before we do so, lets look at what the law about declaration of assets says.

The Nigerian constitution requires that top government officials declare their assets before they are sworn into office. President Jonathan did not do so when he was sworn in on May 29, 2011. Nigerians had to huff and puff for months. During one media chat when the question was put to him that Nigerians were worried that he was disobeying the constitution by not declaring his assets as at when due, the president said he did not give a damn.

Eighteen months after, while nobody was looking, President Goodluck Jonathan declared his assets. We know this because on September 24th, 2012, the Chairman of the Code of Conduct Bureau (CCB) Dr. Sam Saba, speaking through Alhaji Ibrahim Manzo, the Federal Commissioner representing North West in the Bureau, brought the good news to the media.

At that event, Saba reiterated that no law said that the President should declare his assets publicly. Saba also added, “What is important is that he has declared his assets and when we go through his form and we discover any area that is questionable, then we will take him to court.”

This was on September 24th, 2012. At that time the Code of Conduct Bureau was yet to go through President Jonathan’s form. Which was how we determined that it was sent to them around that time. And since we have not heard from Mr. Saba, over two years after, we can safely assume that he went through the forms and found nothing questionable that would require him to take the president to court as he promised in that speech at a Compliance Training Workshop for Public Officers in Abuja.

What President Jonathan declared is secret, sealed and locked away in the office of Code of Conduct Bureau. The presidency insists that the constitution did not require that he makes his declaration public. The chairman of Code of Conduct Bureau on his part asked those who want to know what is in the president’s declaration form to invoke the Freedom of Information Act.

Paragraph 3, Part I of the Third Schedule to the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, as amended, provides that the Code of Conduct Bureau shall have power to: (a) receive declarations by public officers made under paragraph 12 of Part I of the Fifth Schedule to this Constitution; (b) examine the declarations in accordance with the requirements of the Code of Conduct or any law; (c) retain custody of such declarations and make them available for inspection by any citizen of Nigeria on such terms and conditions as the National Assembly may prescribe.

The next option left for Nigerians who wish to know the content of the president’s declaration forms was to invoke Schedule (c) which says that the Code of Conduct Bureau retains custody of such declarations and make them available for inspection by any citizen of Nigeria on such terms and conditions as the National Assembly may prescribe.

In October of 2011, the African Center for Media and Information Literacy (AFRICMIL) dragged the Code of Conduct Bureau to court for failing to release to the public the asset declaration of the president. AFRICMIL had in July of 2011 sent a Freedom of Information request “to be allowed to inspect and obtain copies of the 2007 asset declaration of President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan; the asset declaration of President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan after the end of his tenure on May 28, 2011; and the current asset declaration of President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan when he assumed office on May 29, 2011.”

As expected, nothing has come out of it.

Whatever the constitution says, and whatever interpretation President Jonathan’s men give it, the gold standard has always been for government officials to make their asset declaration public on taking over office.

Mr Man, it seems you are having memory issues. I was simply correcting you when you said Jonathan NEVER publicly declared his assets in the past.

You requested to know the amount he declared publicly which I gave to you. Simple. I wonder what's the basis behind your gibberish here.

PassingShot:
We still being within 100 days is the reason people like you don't have to hyperventilate. PMB declared with CCB even before he was sworn in. In the coming days, the assets will surely be made available. So, relax!

OK.
And while we are waiting for it, can you explain how a "one million naira " account holder can afford a very expensive british education for all his children and a £30,000 wristwatch.

CSTR2:
Good.
Let your buhari keep his word.
And God help him if he is not able to reconcile his "only one million in my account" statement and the fact that his wife has a £30,000 wristwatch and all his children are enjoying very expensive british education.

I think you guys should first purge yourselves of this hatred. This is the first president Nigeria has ever produced who is ready to fight corruption headlong. Our number one problem. We should give him credit for this and give him our support. Malice would not help any one.

Maybe Buhari doesn't understand the meaning of 'public' after all im no go school.

Rawani:
Hogwash. You should have posted the remaining article.

But what is President Jonathan’s worth? That question still needs to be answered.

Since the president will not just tell us and save us and save himself the headache, we will calculate it for him.

But before we do so, lets look at what the law about declaration of assets says.

The Nigerian constitution requires that top government officials declare their assets before they are sworn into office. President Jonathan did not do so when he was sworn in on May 29, 2011. Nigerians had to huff and puff for months. During one media chat when the question was put to him that Nigerians were worried that he was disobeying the constitution by not declaring his assets as at when due, the president said he did not give a damn.

Eighteen months after, while nobody was looking, President Goodluck Jonathan declared his assets. We know this because on September 24th, 2012, the Chairman of the Code of Conduct Bureau (CCB) Dr. Sam Saba, speaking through Alhaji Ibrahim Manzo, the Federal Commissioner representing North West in the Bureau, brought the good news to the media.

At that event, Saba reiterated that no law said that the President should declare his assets publicly. Saba also added, “What is important is that he has declared his assets and when we go through his form and we discover any area that is questionable, then we will take him to court.”

This was on September 24th, 2012. At that time the Code of Conduct Bureau was yet to go through President Jonathan’s form. Which was how we determined that it was sent to them around that time. And since we have not heard from Mr. Saba, over two years after, we can safely assume that he went through the forms and found nothing questionable that would require him to take the president to court as he promised in that speech at a Compliance Training Workshop for Public Officers in Abuja.

What President Jonathan declared is secret, sealed and locked away in the office of Code of Conduct Bureau. The presidency insists that the constitution did not require that he makes his declaration public. The chairman of Code of Conduct Bureau on his part asked those who want to know what is in the president’s declaration form to invoke the Freedom of Information Act.

Paragraph 3, Part I of the Third Schedule to the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, as amended, provides that the Code of Conduct Bureau shall have power to: (a) receive declarations by public officers made under paragraph 12 of Part I of the Fifth Schedule to this Constitution; (b) examine the declarations in accordance with the requirements of the Code of Conduct or any law; (c) retain custody of such declarations and make them available for inspection by any citizen of Nigeria on such terms and conditions as the National Assembly may prescribe.

The next option left for Nigerians who wish to know the content of the president’s declaration forms was to invoke Schedule (c) which says that the Code of Conduct Bureau retains custody of such declarations and make them available for inspection by any citizen of Nigeria on such terms and conditions as the National Assembly may prescribe.

In October of 2011, the African Center for Media and Information Literacy (AFRICMIL) dragged the Code of Conduct Bureau to court for failing to release to the public the asset declaration of the president. AFRICMIL had in July of 2011 sent a Freedom of Information request “to be allowed to inspect and obtain copies of the 2007 asset declaration of President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan; the asset declaration of President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan after the end of his tenure on May 28, 2011; and the current asset declaration of President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan when he assumed office on May 29, 2011.”

As expected, nothing has come out of it.

Whatever the constitution says, and whatever interpretation President Jonathan’s men give it, the gold standard has always been for government officials to make their asset declaration public on taking over office.

This is the weakest argument I have ever read, before the election you portray your god as being better and upright but now that he has been sworn in , you are trying to justify his actions with what PDP allegedly did.
I hope you are not in a position to mentor young people.

Amaudeogu:
I don't see anything difficult for the president elect to declare his assets publicly if he is not hiding something from the masses...

Exactly. If YarAdua could do it, why is it that Buhari cannot? Hypocrite

Jesusloveyou:
wait for 4yrs

who are u talking to? oga, face ur front jo. u think i care about ur politics?

Bla bla bla! Mr Buhari won't be arrested if he and his vice publicly announce what they have submitted to ccb. We have twitter, Facebook to do that if he won't call a press conference. Dammn

niceguy7:
Make dem free baba jor.......
Did gej even declared his assets at all? Talk less of displaying it privately.

NAa this type go wake tomorrow and start abusing GEJ for no cause.

GEJ declared his assets publicly as a vice president and did same privately as the president.

An2elect2:
I think you guys should first purge yourselves of this hatred. This is the first president Nigeria has ever produced who is ready to fight corruption headlong. Our number one problem. We should give him credit for this and give him our support. Malice would not help any one.

How can we expect him to keep his word on fighting corruption when he has begun reneging on some of his promises?

An2elect2:
Yes he is but he has so many people's trusts already. One of the qualities of a good leader is integrity.
I respect baba a lot and would want him to keep his words, this will silent gainsayers. We shouldn't encourage otherwise.

Ok......its jst3days in office....it will be too early to start judging.

Rawani:
Stop trying to be clever by half, we are not speaking of 2007 VP Jonathan that was coerced and practically forced to declare by Late Yar'adua, but the immediate past President, except you want to tell us Jonathan subverted the constitution by refusing to declare his assets along with Sambo as constitutionally required upon assumption of the office of the President.

Again the focus is on urging PMB, not blaming Jonathan, it has already been established that his lack of commitment to the whole declaration process is why we are just discovering the constitutional challenges of TRULY publicly declaring assets.

Whether you like it or not Jonathan declared his assets publicly in 2007. This confirms that you are a perpetual liar for making the comment below:

Rawani:
If you carefully read my comment, you'd see I specifically mentioned the past administration because it enacted the FOI Act which suffers the lacuna that is the basis of the current conflict.

Furthermore, GEJ never publicly declared his assets, he only did the constitutional minimum of submitting his declaration.

Whether you like it or not Jonathan remains the ONLY politician alive to have declared his assets PUBLICLY. Even the certificateless Buhari hasn't achieved that feat.

gboss4sure:
NAa this type go wake tomorrow and start abusing GEJ for no cause.

GEJ declared his assets publicly as a vice president and did same privately as the president.

Guy its too early to start arguments
Wen gej declared his assets privately as a President..... Wt did anybody do.

An2elect2:
I think you guys should first purge yourselves of this hatred. This is the first president Nigeria has ever produced who is ready to fight corruption headlong. Our number one problem. We should give him credit for this and give him our support. Malice would not help any one.

But he is already condoning corruption .
Timipreye sylva is already being left off the hook by the EFCC and buhari is finding it difficult to prove the source of his huge wealth.
And btw, president yar'adua was the only "incorruptible" president we ever had.
Buhari is not fit to lace his boots.

Buhari this, Buhari that.


So una prefer GEJ to hang around?


I bet he would have done a Stellar Job in his 2nd Tenure.


Una for vote for HOPE or APGA or KOWA.


First na Office of First Lady, then Declaration of Assets (AS IF Yaradua declared his own after a few days) , thereafter the First Lady's Watch(before she has even entered office), soon e go be First Lady's underwear or Zahra's new boyfriend or the size of the president's Joystick. Honestly I won't be surprised if some blockheads on this forum bring up such topics.


You are just trying hard with this opposition ish that it's now looking childish irrational and illogical. Stop giving the opposition a silly image while some of us are trying so hard to make it respectable.

lookingfly:
am begining to have a second thought oo,are we sure this bullhari no go corrupt wella so?this is a differential diagnosis that this guy will be corrupt.......runs into lab. To do my confirmatory!

Buhari may have good intentions but the goats around him will prefer to continue the enslavement of Nigeria and continue the looting.

Junipero:
Buhari this, Buhari that.


So una prefer GEJ to hang around?


I bet he would have done a Stellar Job in his 2nd Tenure.


Una for vote for HOPE or APGA or KOWA.


First na Office of First Lady, then Declaration of Assets (AS IF Yaradua declared his own after a few days) , thereafter the First Lady's Watch(before she has even entered office), soon e go be First Lady's underwear or Zahra's new boyfriend or the size of the president's Joystick. Honestly I won't be surprised if some blockheads on this forum bring up such topics.


You are just trying hard with this opposition ish that it's now looking childish irrational and illogical. Stop giving the opposition a silly image while some of us are trying so hard to make it respectable.

Go and sit down you bloody APC lackey.
Even GEJ the much maligned president did the needful as VP.
And your change agent can not explain the source of his obscene wealth.

niceguy7:
Guy its too early to start arguments
Wen gej declared his assets privately as a President..... Wt did anybody do.

APC abused him, Their supporters abused him.

Now they are doing the same thing and expect everyone to clap for them.

repogirl:
How can we expect him to keep his word on fighting corruption when he has begun reneging on some of his promises?

Hey girl, if i were you i'll give it time. Its too early to start finding faults in someone you wish well. Let things unfold and we would know the deceivers and the deceived.

ShowYourCertificate:
Whether you like it or not Jonathan declared his assets publicly in 2007. This confirms that you are a perpetual liar for making the comment below:



Whether you like it or not Jonathan remains the ONLY politician alive to have declared his assets PUBLICLY. Even the certificateless Buhari hasn't achieved that feat.

If it makes you sleep better