Project 40: Forty Public Office holders who should declare their assets
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Nigerians from all walks of life have commended President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua for the wonderful gesture of publicly declaring his assets on June 28, 2007, four weeks after he came to power.
President Yar’Adua’s gesture is significant because Nigeria’s leaders often speak about the best interests of the nation, but are reluctant to support it in practice. Were he to have opted to follow the spirit of the law, all President Yar’Adua needed do was file his statement of assets quietly with the appropriate governmental agency.
President Yar’Adua knew, however, that in our current context, the letter of the law was simply inadequate. He made the courageous decision to apply, instead, the spirit of the law, and placed his statement of his assets into the hands of every Nigerian.
That decision was more than a symbolic subscription to the desire of Nigerians to truly know those who govern them and preach to them. It was also a challenge.
It was a challenge to all who seek or serve in public office. It was a challenge to Vice–President Goodluck Jonathan, to Senate President David Mark, to the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Patricia Olubunmi Etteh and to every Governor and Deputy Governor, all 36 pairs of them. It was a challenge to everyone in elected or appointed office who understands the chaos of our history and the crisis of public morality in our nation.
What is right is for all the government officials we have named above to accept the example of the President and declare their assets immediately, and publicly.
They must understand that there is really no hiding room anymore. To seek to hide under the law serves only to suggest eloquently that you could not possibly be listed among the honest or the honourable. Our public officials must understand that no longer is the public going to award them the benefit of the doubt. It must be earned.
We further believe that two months after new governments were sworn-in nationwide is more than enough time for every conscientious official, particularly those listed here, to do the honourable thing and publicly declare their assets. They must do so NOW.
President Yar’Adua’s declaration of assets one month ago was also a challenge to every Nigerian not to look in the law for somewhere to hide, but in their hearts for what is right.
We invite the mass media throughout Nigeria to take up this campaign prominently on their pages because there is hardly anything more important in the country today than the integrity of public officials. If public funds did not disappear into their bottomless pockets, Nigeria would have had hundreds of billions of United States dollars since the end of the civil war with which to transform the nation into a modern state.
Some of those funds would not now be sitting in idle private accounts worldwide, but working for Nigerians in the implementation of budgets and public projects, and for improving the quality of life through the provision of water, roads, healthcare, education, electricity, etc.
We look forward, in the coming weeks, to thanking those public officials who publicly declare their assets, without prejudice to the right of the public to examine the content of each declaration. Those who refuse to do the honourable thing will be inducted into a ROLL OF DISHONOUR.
Nigerians the world over are invited to sign this campaign, and to invite Nigerians everywhere to do so. Together, we can make public office a venue for service and an attractive place for respectable men – not an avenue for limitless greed and a haven for ruthless robbers.
List Of Officials Who Should Publicly Declare Their Assets Immediately
Office - Name
1. President - Umaru Musa Yar’Adua - Declared 856 Million Naira June 28th, 2007
2. Vice-President - Goodluck Jonathan
3. President of the Senate - David Mark
4. Speaker of the House of Reps - Patricial O. Etteh
State Governors, as follows:
5. Abia State - Theodore Orji
6. Adamawa State - Murtala Nyako
7. Akwa Ibom State - Godswill Akpabio
8. Anambra State - Peter Obi
9. Bauchi State - Isa Yuguda
10. Bayelsa State - Timipre Sylva
11. Benue State - Gabriel Suswam
12. Borno State - Ali Modu Sheriff
13. Cross River State - Liyel Imoke
14. Delta State - Emmanuel Uduaghan
15. Ebonyi State - Martin Elechi
16. Edo State - Oserheimen Osumbor
17. Ekiti State - Olusegun Oni
18. Enugu State - Sullivan Chime
19. Gombe State - Mohammed Danjuma Goje
20. Imo State - Ikedi Godson Ohakim
21. Jigawa State - Sule Lamido
22. Kaduna State - Mohammed Namadi Sambo
23. Kano State - Ibrahim Shekarau
24. Katsina State - Ibrahim Shema
25. Kebbi State - Usman Saidu Nasamu Dakingari
26. Kogi State - Ibrahim Idris
27. Kwara State - Bukola Saraki
28. Lagos State - Babatunde Fashola
29. Nasarawa State - Aliyu Doma
30. Niger State - Mu'azu Babangida Aliyu
31. Ogun State - Gbenga Daniel
32. Ondo State - Olusegun Agagu
33. Osun State - Olagunsoye Oyinlola
34. Oyo State - Christopher Alao-Akala
35. Plateau State - Jonah Jang
36. Rivers State - Celestine Omehia
37. Sokoto State - Aliyu Wamakko
38. Taraba State - Danbaba Suntari
39. Yobe State - Mamman Bello Ali
40. Zamfara State - Mahmud Shinkafi
Signed
1. Sonala Olumhense - USA
2. SOC Okenwa - Côte D'ivoire
3. Hakeem Babalola - Hungary
4. Edet Umoafia - Canada
5. Ishola A Taiwo - UK
6. Ifeoma Ogu - USA
7. Don Juan-Carlos ABRAXAS (III) - Brazil
8. deborah adelakin - UK
9. Dapo Osewa - UK
10. Lola Fashola - Canada
11. Femi Daodu - Canada
12. Asia Ero - USA
13. Nurudeen Elias - USA
14. Seun Akinola - USA
15. medon akioyamen aloja - Spain
16. Wale Ekpere - Nigeria
17. F N Onuoha PhD - Japan
18. ANTHONY OKOSUN - USA
19. Daniel Elombah - UK
20. Ikechukwu Igbokwe - Nigeria
21. Mr. Onukulunjo Gekwumma - USA
22. Joseph Inyang - USA
23. Adegboyega Ogundele - Spain
24. Moses Akintomide Akinwamide - UK
25. Tinuade Awe - USA
26. E. Terfa Ula-Lisa - USA
27. Femi Sobowale - USA
28. Olukayode Akingbogun - UK
29. Ferdinand B. Oguamelu - Nigeria
30. JEGEDE MICHAEL - Nigeria
31. abasiama idaresit - Nigeria
32. DARAMOLA Adedayo-Franklyn - Nigeria
33. Babatunde N -
34. Ohai Edward - UK
35. Babatunde S.T - UK
36. Grace Mba - USA
37. Grace Ogu - USA
38. Ibrahim Waziri - Nigeria
39. Dr. Aisha N. Obodoeke - USA
40. Nosa Olotu - UK
41. Max Eze - UK
42. kazeem omokanye - UK
43. John Enoma - UK
44. Ibrahim Ali - UK
45. Ignatius Nwaiwu - USA
46. Paul Agho - Germany
47. Ahaoma Kanu - Nigeria
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