Both President Buhari and Vice President Osinbajo had yet to complete their asset declaration.- CCB

Two months after assuming office,President Muhammadu Buhari and Vice President Yemi Osinbajo have yet to present themselves to the Code of Conduct Bureau for verification of their assets as required by law.

This is despite the fact that they had promised to make the details of their
assets declared to the CBB public only after the verification exercise.
But two months after the private declaration of their assets, SUNDAY PUNCH
has learnt that the first and second citizens had yet to present themselves for
the verification.

Section 3(a) of the Third Schedule of the nation’s 1999 Constitution, which is
reproduced in section 3(b) of the Code of Conduct Bureau and Tribunal Act
confers the power to verify the assets declared by the public officers on the
CCB.

The Presidency had said until the CCB completed the verification, the President
and the Vice-President would not make the details of their declared assets
public as they promised during electioneering.

The Chairman of the CCB, Mr. Sam Saba, confirmed to our correspondent in an
exclusive interview on Thursday that both President Buhari and Vice President
Osinbajo had yet to show up for the verification.

According to him, the verification of the assets declared by a public officer
involves two stages, which are conference and field verifications.