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Nigeria: False Asset Declaration Charge: Saraki Discharged, Acquitted
Premium Times, 14 June 2017
The Code of Conduct Tribunal has dismissed the case of false asset declaration against Nigeria's Senate President, Bukola Saraki. Read more »
Bukola Saraki was slammed with a 13-count charge for allegedly not fully disclosing his assets to the government when he was sworn in as senate president in September 2015. The case has seen several postponements over two years, and it has now been thrown out of court after a judge ruled the evidence "incurably defective".
Senate President Bukola Saraki.
The Senate President, Bukola Saraki, was initially facing a 16-count charge of fraud levelled against him by the Code of Conduct Bureau. Read more »
Senate President Bukola Saraki has said that he is ready to lose his freedom to entrench democracy and stabilise governance in the country. Read more »
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