All Those Seeking Political Appointments In My Administration Will Be Forced To Declare Their Assets- Buhari

Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, the winner of the Nigeria Presidential election says those seeking political appointments in his administration will be forced to declare their assets before taking and leaving office. He said this would encourage accountability and reduce corruption.

He said, “All those that were governors, ministers,
permanent secretaries, head of foreign staff and
all those with political appointments will have to
declare their assets on the assumption of their
appointment and definitely with the courts. And
once they leave they have to re-declare their
assets.”
Buhari, who insisted that last-minute defectors
would not be given appointments in his
government, promised not to interfere with the
judiciary in the fight against corruption but would
strengthen the nation’s justice system. He stated that his administration would not “become embroiled in investigation of every ministry, and then the government will not have time to move forward.”
The President-elect slammed the Minister of
Finance, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, for the depletion of the Excess Crude Account. Okonjo-Iweala had said a significant portion of the billions of dollars drained from ECA over the past two years was distributed to governors instead of being saved for a rainy day. However, Buhari said the finance minister’s excuse was not acceptable.
“I’m afraid the finance minister has no cause to
complain because the governors cannot force the
central government to act outside the constitution,” he said.
On the contentious issue of oil block ownership and
an equitable distribution of the country’s wealth,
he suggested that partisan politics in Nigeria was
the cause of the uneven distribution in the oil
sector.
Buhari said that he wanted to formalise the oil
sector in the country. He said that the “proliferation of oil fields to people who don’t even know what it is, is one of the messes partisan politics has brought.
 - Punch