Make Buratai’s Assets Declaration Public – CACOL Tells CCB

Make Buratai’s Assets Declaration Public

The Coalition Against Corrupt Leaders has called on the Code of Conduct Bureau to make public the assets declared by the Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Tukur Buratai.

The call from CACOL followed reports in the media that the army chief purchased two mansions worth $1.5m in Dubai.

Following the report, the Nigerian Army issued a statement confirming that Buratai owned the properties, and explaining that he bought them with his savings and that he had declared both assets.

CACOL, however, questioned the claim about how the army chief acquired the properties.

It said, “From empirical analysis, it is clear that the arithmetic does not add-up even if the General never spent a dime out of what he was to have officially earned since he joined public service via the Army.

“How a General with his ‘life savings’ and even possibly other legitimate means could afford the said properties is no doubt very questionable!”

“We are therefore hereby officially requesting your Bureau, relying on the Sections 1 and 2 (and the subsections) of the Freedom of Information Act, 2011 for the details of the assets declarations of the COAS, and for the information to be made public so as to avail the general public the right to know details of COAS’s asset declarations and to put to rest the controversies thrown up by the case.

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