My ministers must declare their assets – Buhari

The President-elect, Muhammadu Buhari, says those
seeking political appointments in his administration
will be forced to declare their assets before taking
office and before leaving.
Buhari said this during an interview with Sahara TV on
Sunday.
He said this would encourage accountability and reduce
corruption.
He said, "All those that were governors, ministers,
permanent secretaries, head of foreign staff and all those
with political appointments will have to declare their assets
on the assumption of their appointment and definitely with
the courts. And once they leave they have to re-declare their
assets."
Buhari, who insisted that last-minute defectors would not be
given appointments in his government, promised not to
interfere with the judiciary in the fight against corruption but
would strengthen the nation's justice system.
He stated that his administration would not "become
embroiled in investigation of every ministry, and then the
government will not have time to move forward."
The President-elect slammed the Minister of Finance, Dr.
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, for the depletion of the Excess Crude
Account.
Okonjo-Iweala had said a significant portion of the billions
of dollars drained from ECA over the past two years was
distributed to governors instead of being saved for a rainy
day
However, Buhari said the finance minister's excuse was not
acceptable.
"I'm afraid the finance minister has no cause to complain
because the governors cannot force the central government
to act outside the constitution," he said.
On the contentious issue of oil block ownership and an
equitable distribution of the country's wealth, he suggested
that partisan politics in Nigeria was the cause of the uneven
distribution in the oil sector.
Buhari said that he wanted to formalise the oil sector in the
country.