The Code of Conduct Bureau has commenced verification of the
N48bn assets declared by Oyo State Governor, Seyi Makinde.
Makinde had declared the N48bn assets in June.
The director of the bureau in Oyo State, Mr Bisi Atolagbe, said
this in Ibadan during a meeting of the South-West states’ directors
of the bureau with the member representing the region on the CCB
board, Prof. Samuel Ogundare.
Atolagbe has said a few weeks ago that his office had forwarded
the assets estimates to the bureau’s headquarters in Abuja.
However, Atolagbe said on Saturday that the exercise had
commenced, adding that the process might not be concluded so
quickly given the technical parts of the verification.
He said, “Work has started in the verification of the content of
declaration submitted by Governor Seyi Makinde. At the right time,
the report will be available. It is not about noise making but
technically doing the work to ascertain assets that are declared.
However, I must point out that the process is not a public
exercise.
“The governor has not committed any crime by declaring his
assets. It is just to ascertain what he has declared; to check if
they are not anticipatory.”
Ogundare said there had been a near 100 per cent compliance to
CCB regulations by current and former public office holders in the
South-West. He explained that both the newly sworn-in political
office holders and those whose tenure ended on May 29 in the zone
had made their pre-service and post-service assets
declarations.
He said former governors Abiola Ajimobi (Oyo State), Akinwunmi
Ambode (Lagos State) and Ibikunle Amosun (Ogun State) and their
deputies had declared their current assets.
He said, “Our governors in the South-West have shown good
examples in compliance. They have done what the constitution
requires them to do before and after occupying office. Since the
governors and their deputies showed good examples, almost all state
lawmakers and appointees have also complied.”
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