15 ex-govs for trial - CCB

ABUJA—The Code of Conduct Bureau said, yesterday, that 15 former governors will soon be charged to court for lying in the assets declaration forms they filled while in office.
Chairman of the Bureau, Mr Sam Saba, who disclosed this while briefing newsmen in Abuja also justified the decision of the Bureau to let some governors off the hook.
He, however, insisted that former Governor of Lagos state and leader of the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, Asiwaju Ahmed Bola Tinubu, has a case to answer before the conduct tribunal over allegations of operating foreign accounts while in office.

Confirming that 15 former governors will soon be charged to court, Mr Saba said: “I want to assure you that verification of the assets of some of the ex-governors is still ongoing including that of those who are still in power.
As it stands today, Borno and Plateau are the only states where we have not requested their governors and public officers to report for verification and this is due to the problem posed by the Boko Haram sect. However, at the appropriate time, we will make public the outcome of our investigations and if it is established that any of them defaulted, we will accordingly charge them before the tribunal. But till then, we are not ready to try anyone on the pages of the newspaper”, Saba added.

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