The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, on
Thursday, disclosed that the current anti- graft war led to the recovery of 40
brand new SUVs from a former Permanent Secretary.
In a statement he personally signed, the Minister who did
not disclose the name of the Permanent Secretary, said the latter appropriated
the vehicle to himself after leaving office.
Mohammed noted that the ongoing anti-corruption war was
being guided by a well-articulated strategy.
According to Mohammed, “The strategy has proven so effective
and that it has led to, among others, the recovery of 40 brand new SUVs and
other vehicles from one former Permanent Secretary who single-handedly
appropriated the vehicles to himself when he left office.”
The Minister said the federal government had perfected some
other measures to strengthen the anti-corruption fight.
He listed the measures to include, the establishment of the
Presidential Committee on Asset Recovery and the Asset Tracing Committee; the
setting up of an Asset Register, and the Whistle Blower Policy.
Mohammed disclosed that the government was working through
the Code of Conduct Bureau to start a trial run of electronic asset declaration
which will facilitate compliance and also to search and retrieve data on the
assets of public officers in the in coming year.
”Once perfected, the data will be shared with government
periodically, if possible as regularly as government receives data on inflation
and unemployment trends, to indicate trends in corruption and influence
government measures to correct the situation before it gets out of hand as we
have now,” he added.
Source:Dailypost Ng
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