Corruption: Code Of Conduct Bureau Serves Summons On ACN Chieftain Bola Tinubu
Posted: September 10, 2011 - 04:11





Bola Tinubu (pic courtesy of google)
By Sahara Reporters New York
Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, former Governor of Lagos State and leader of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), today received a summons from the Code of Conduct Bureau (CCB) to appear before it on 21 September.

The summons, signed by the chairman of the Bureau, was dated September 6. It alleges that while Tinubu was governor of Lagos State, he contravened the Code of Conduct Bureau and Tribunal Act by operating several foreign bank accounts, between 1999 and 2007.

In a response, Tinubu noted that “after years of threats, political mudslinging and media trial on the impending allegations, a formal invitation to commence trial has finally come,” and that he welcomed it in conformity with his respect for the rule of law calling on the judiciary to ensure that justice is done, he cautioned that at the CCB, “those who allege must prove.”

The ACN leader said he welcomed the opportunity to put an end to years of insinuations, unproven allegations and politically orchestrated persecution. Tinubu’s summons dates from his second term as governor when a Joint Task Force (JTF) on corruption established by former President Olusegun Obasanjo indicted him as one of 15 governors to be arraigned under the Code of Conduct Bureau under the CCB Act.

In addition to the CCB itself, the JTF included the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC), the Department of State Services (DSS), and the Nigerian Police. Each of them had five members in the task force, which was led by the EFCC and chaired by Nuhu Ribadu.

The JTF concluded that:
• Some public officers had declared assets far above what they owned as their declaration could not be substantiated - a case of anticipatory declaration;
• Some public officers did not declare some of the properties they acquired while in office; and; the issue of ownership of foreign accounts and late declaration had been treated with levity.

As a result of these three conclusions, the JTF found that 15 State Governors, including Tinubu and Bayelsa State’s Goodluck Jonathan, who later the same year became the vice-presidential candidate of the People’s Democratic Party, had individually contravened some of the provisions of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, especially on the issue of false declaration of Assets and or acquisition of properties outside legitimate means.

The segment of the JTF’s report involving Tinubu was as follows:
(15) BOLA TINUBU - GOVERNOR LAGOS STATE




Substance of Charges

(1) Operating and maintaining foreign accounts in his named and or his Company, compass Finance and Investment Ltd. with following particulars:

I. NAME OF BANK: FIRST HERITAGE BANK, COUNTRY CLUB HILLS, ILLINOIS
ACCOUNT NAME: BOLA TINUBU
ACCOUNT NO: 263226700

II. NAME OF BANK: CITIBANK N.A., NEW YORK
ACCOUNT NAME: BOLA TINUBU & COMPASS FINANCE AND INVESTMENT COMPANY LTD
ACCOUNT NOS: 39483134, 39483396, 4650279566, 00400220, 39936404, 39936383

III. NAME OF BANK: HSBC 177 Great Portland Street London WIW 6QJ ACCOUNT NAME: TINUBU ZAINAB ABISOLA (MISS)
ACCOUNT NOS: 1720447101

IV. NAME OF BANK: HSBC 177 Great Portland Street London WIW 6QJ
ACCOUNT NAME: (MRS) TINUBU OLUREMI SHADE

V. NAME OF BANK: HSBC 177 Great Portland Street London WIW 6QJ.
ACCOUNT NAME: OLUREMI SHADE TINUBU
ACCOUNT NOS: 41421522
SORT CODES: 40-03-15.

SaharaReporters has not been able to confirm if these are the charges that will be used against Tinubu, or whether there are other issues. We have also not been able to confirm why it has taken five years for today’s summons to be issued, or whether any of the others involved in the report have also been contacted.

Gbam!
This will slow this weed head down a bit.
There is nothing more insulting than when you steal from me and then beat your chest to show off.


Fashola will now be able to do more while this cocaine pusher is busy visiting juju and idol worshipers to get him off this hook.

Tinubu the music has just started, get ready

Holy goodness, @Gibson and co, una no go kill me for here o.

I thought read here that he is in coma. How can they charge somebody in coma? This is inhuman man.

@Doncaster, plz keep off drugs or maybe u are joking?

Tinubu should start preparing successors. Rauf will be my best bet. Nigeria must be rescued from vampires, by all means.

@Akanbi, may ur days be long.

okstol:

@Akanbi, may your days be long.

AMIN to that. May your days be long too.

Bunch of PDP toothless bulldogs, where were you since 2007?
Tell Me?
Your OGa OBJ no get the power to imprisoned Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu with this cooked up stories not to talk of Odechukwu.
Keep Dreaming.
[size=30pt]Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu I salute Your courage and Integrity against PDP Bloody suckers and vampires[/size].
Buncha Ediots

Tinubu? Una go kill person with laughter.

seanet02:

Bunch of PDP toothless bulldogs, where were you since 2007?
Tell Me?
Your OGa OBJ no get the power to imprisoned Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu with this cooked up stories not to talk of Odechukwu.
Keep Dreaming.
[size=30pt]Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu I salute Your courage and Integrity against PDP Bloody suckers and vampires[/size].
Buncha Ediots

Bros, comot that cotton wool wey dey for ya eye.
Sometimes we have to accept the simple truth no matter how difficult it might be.

cantell:

Bros, comot that cotton wool wey dey for ya eye.
Sometimes we have to accept the simple truth no matter how difficult it might be.

[size=20pt]How on earth will [/size]the Truth be so difficult for OBJ and his Co PDP Bloody suckers to nail Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu since 2007?
Pray tell me they did not have the evidence since those days?
It is all cooked up stories and it is bound to FAIL, Straight to the Thrash Can

i pity all you PDp henchmen on nairaland thinking of Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu being jailed, arrant waste of time.
Go find Agbero Jobs for Lagos.
Witcheeeeesss Can do Nada for BAT.