Nigeria: IAP calls for new bill on assets

Independent Advocacy Project (IAP), Nigeria’s leading anti-corruption group has called on President Umaru Yar’Adua to table, in the coming months, before the National Assembly, a bill that makes it mandatory for all public office holders – including the president, his vice, state governors and their deputies and local government chairmen - to publicly declare their assets. The 1999 Constitution only allows private declaration to the Code of Conduct Bureau (CCB) within one month of assumption of office.