Senate President, Abubakar Bukola Saraki, Monday said he has fully fulfilled the provisions of the law on declaration of assets by public officers.
Saraki was reacting to the claim made by Panama-based offshore provider, Mossack Fonseca and shared by the International Consortium of Investigation Journalists (ICIJ) that he failed to declare assets belonging to his wife, Mrs Toyin Saraki.
The embattled Senate President said he had on several occasions declared his assets, including properties owned individually by himself and his wife.
“Furthermore, the law only requires a public officer to declare both his own assets and those held by his spouse and his children under 18 years of age. The law does not require a public officer to declare assets held by the spouse’s family.
“It is not expected by the law that a public officer should declare such assets held in the spouse’s family estate. Indeed, the Code of Conduct form does not make provision for declaration of spouse’s family assets”, he stated in a statement issued on Monday.
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