There are indications that politicians
in the country have begun to lobby the Code of Conduct Bureau in a bid
to amend some of the information in the asset declaration forms that
they had earlier submitted.
It was learnt that the
development is because of fear of arrest as this is coming in the light
of the ongoing trial of Senate President Bukola Saraki at the Code of
Conduct Tribunal over alleged false declaration of assets.
Investigation by Saturday PUNCH
showed that state CCB offices have become busier following Saraki’s
ordeal at the CCT, but sources told our correspondents that it was too
late for politicians to change the information they had earlier given to
the bureau.
For
instance, sources in the CCB office in Delta State disclosed that some
politicians, including senators and members of the House of
Representatives, have been lobbying officials of the bureau to grant
them permission to amend the asset declaration forms they had submitted.
According to the source, politicians in
the state had until now taken the exercise for granted, believing that
they could never be prosecuted over it.
The source said that President Muhammadu
Buhari’s anti-corruption stance and the trial of Saraki at the CCT
seemed to have jolted the politicians.
Punch
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