Shehu Sani Declares Assets

                                     

Senator representing Kaduna Central, Shehu Sani, has made public his assets.Barely 48 hours after President Muhammadu Buhari and Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo made their assets declaration public.
The senator’s assets and liabilities, he indicated, include a bank balance of N22m; seven houses in Kaduna, Abuja, Niger and Katsina states; “several vehicles,” two uncompleted office apartments in Kaduna; N5m in shares reportedly bought in 2007 and crashed in 2008; 30 books published in Nigeria, the United States and the United Kingdom with royalties; and a community journal titled Peace Magazine.


According to him, making his assets declaration public is in conformity with the standard of transparent and exemplary leadership set by the President and Vice-President. He explained that the act indicated his submission to the public demand for integrity from all publicoffice holders.

He said, “In a new Nigeria on a filtration process for a politically cleaner and decent future, I have decided to voluntarily make this public declaration. President Muhammadu Buhari and Vice-President Osinbajo’s public declaration of their assets is a moral challenge to all public officeholders.

“Their declaration challenges all men of conscience and docks all men who lay claim to self-dignity and self-worth. Their public declaration hangs a chain of guilt on the neck of all public officeholders.

“To refuse to publicly declare assets is to continue to carry the burden of a moral thorn of guilt, in a nation whose generation of leaders for so long stands in the dock of ethical court.”

“A clean broom is needed to clean a dirty space. I chose to publicly declare and be pelted than to walk with the stain of suspicion and mistrust splashed on all public officeholders by a generation of curious citizenry,”