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There are indications that politicians in the country have begun to lobby the Code of Conduct Bureau in a
bid to amend some of the information in the asset declaration forms that they had earlier submitted.


Saturday PUNCH learnt that the development is because of fear of arrest as this is coming in the light of the ongoing trial of Senate
President Bukola Saraki at the Code of Conduct Tribunal over alleged false declaration of assets.


Investigation by Saturday PUNCH showed that state CCB
offices have become busier following Saraki’s ordeal at the CCT, but sources told our correspondents that it
was too late for politicians to change the information they had earlier given to thebureau.


For instance, sources in the CCB office in Delta State disclosed that some politicians, including senators
and members of the House of Representatives, have been lobbying officials of the bureau to grant them permission to amend the asset declaration forms they
had submitted.


According to the source, politicians in the state had until now taken the exercise
for granted, believing that they could never be prosecuted over it.


The source said that
President Muhammadu
Buhari’s anti-corruption
stance and the trial of Saraki at the CCT seemed to have
jolted the politicians.


Confirming that politicians have begun lobbying CCB officials, the source, who did
not want to be named, added that officials of the bureau have recently had to take
their security more seriously as a result of the fresh attention drawn to it by Saraki’s prosecution.


The source said, “The
Saraki trial has caused
politicians to become jittery.


They have been gripped by fear of arrest because of the recent political events and some of them have been secretly visiting our offices to lobby some of us. They
include senators and
members of the House of Representatives.

“Some of the politicians that have been coming are highly placed. Before now, they took everything for granted,
knowing that they are in the same party with the government at the centre.


With the recent developments, many of them are now rushing to amend the information given on
their asset declaration forms.


“They say there might be errors in their forms and that they are willing to makethe necessary adjustments.”


Our correspondents also learnt that politicians in Ondo State have been approaching
officials of CCB to assist them in amending the forms they had submitted to the bureau.


One of the officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, informed one of our correspondents that
some politicians in the state, who were believed to have lied about their assets in the disclosure forms, have been pleading with officials of the bureau to allow them to review their information.


He said, “Some of them have been coming to us to amend some information on their
forms, but there is nothing we can do about their request, because the forms
had already been forwardedto Abuja and there is no way we can retrieve them again,
at least from our own end here. I don’t know of any other means.”


The source, however,
denied that officials of the bureau have been conniving with politicians to cover up
for those who declared false assets, saying, “That iscriminal, everybody is now very careful. This is an era
of change and nobody wants to play with his job again.”


But a source at the CCB
office in Enuguadmitted to one of our correspondents that politicians sometimes
want to review information they submitted in their forms, attributing it to theirignorance.


He said nobody is allowed to review information already
put in such asset declarationforms.


He, however, regretted the possibility of some officials of the bureau conniving with politicians to make illegal amendments in the forms.


“Anything is possible,” he said, adding that “It is also possible that some staff of the bureau would conspire
with politicians” to rectify completed assets declaration forms.


In the same vein, he
revealed that, most times, officials of the CCB assist politicians in filling their asset declaration forms.


He said the CCB usually
works with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission,
disclosing that the bureau recently aided the anti-graft agency by making the asset
declaration form of a former governor of the state available for corruption charges.

Lol fear of prison

fabiaknow:
Lol fear of prison

beginning of corruption-free Nigeria

Believe you me, after Saraki's case CCB will go back to its usual coma they will only wake up when another politician offends Tinubu. So there's no cause for alarm.

See the people deceiving people PDP

And later some goats will say its GEJ's achievement

and when i say goat , i mean fake barcanista and temitem1

The bigger picture is yet to unfold and like i said , all Nigeria needs is a high profile prosecution and jailing

If Saraki is the scape goat, so be it

Enough is enough, Nigerians are tired of shuffering and shmiling , while Politicians load all our money to their account