The ministers of my government must declare their assets –Buhari

Buhari, says those looking for political appointments in his
administration will be forced to declare their assets before taking
office and before leaving.
The president elect 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.
He said that the "proliferation of oil fields to people who don't even
know what it is, is one of the messes partisan politics has brought.
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