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JUST IN: Asset Declaration: Conduct Tribunal Discharges, Acquits Saraki

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June 14, 2017
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Bukola Saraki

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The Code of Conduct Tribunal, Wednesday, discharged and acquitted the Senate President, Bukola Saraki, over charges of false asset declaration.

The ruling came barely a month after Mr. Saraki filed a no-case submission shortly after prosecution closed its case.

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But in the ruling, the Chairman of the tribunal, Danladi Umar, held the prosecution failed to prove the charges brought against Mr. Saraki.

The Code of Conduct Bureau had in September 2015, filed a 13-count charge of corruption nthe Senate president.
In charge No. ABT/01/15, dated September 11 and filed before the tribunal, Mr. Saraki was accused of offences ranging from anticipatory declaration of assets to making false declaration of assets in forms he filed before the Code of Conduct Bureau while he was governor of Kwara State.

Mr. Saraki was also accused failing to declare some assets he acquired while in office as governor.
Among other offences, including allegedly acquiring assets beyond his legitimate earnings, Mr. Saraki is also accused of operating foreign accounts while being a public officer – governor and senator.

The offences, the charge said, violated Sections of the Fifth Schedule of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999, as amended.

Mr. Saraki is also said to have breached Section 2 of the Code of Conduct Bureau and Tribunal Act and punishable under Paragraph 9 of the 5th Schedule of the Constitution.

The charges were prepared by M.S. Hassan, a deputy director in the office of the Attorney General of the Federation.

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