SARAKI ACCUSSES CCB OF EXTERNAL INFLUENCE TO TARNISH HIM

Senate President Bukola Saraki has faulted the allegations of corruption leveled against him by the Code of Conduct Bureau (CCB). He alleged that the CCB was acting under external influence, and wondered why they had to wait for 12 years before stating that the information he gave in his asset declaration form was false.

He noted that CCB, following its processes in which after a declaration is submitted to the bureau, ought to have carried out verification of the assets and ascertain the claims made and not wait till 12 years later to point out alleged inconsistencies in a document submitted to it in 2003.
He said that contrary to the procedure indicated in the law setting up the CCB, the bureau never wrote to him to complain of any inconsistency in his asset declaration forms.