Toyin Saraki Charged To Court for False Declaration Of Asset

The Senate president is charged to court alongside his wife, Toyin Saraki over alleged complicity in shady contract deals during Saraki’s tenure as governor of Kwara state between 2003 and 2011 according to Vanguard. 
Due to concluded plans by the Economic & Financial Crimes Commission the decision was to include Toyin in the prosecution. 

The Senate president, Bukola Saraki has been slammed with a 13-count charge by the Code of Conduct Bureau (CCB) for alleged corruption and false declaration of assets at the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT). 

In line with that, Toyin would be arraigned immediately the judiciary resumes from vacation this month. But Senator Saraki will be docked on Friday, September 18 for falsely declaring his assets contrary to constitutional requirements, The Nation reports. 

A senior official of the ministry had said that the arraignment would go ahead barring any last-minute change. 

But the Senate president sniggered at the charges when he told correspondents in Abuja that most of them are frivolous and not true.

He added: “I have always done my declaration. We will continue to do our job. 

“There is no doubt that it is mischievous. It is not current. The issues are not true. As far as we are concerned, we are not shaking. We will focus on what we have come to do in the interest of the country?”

 

Vanguard