Make your declared assets public, SERAP tells Tinubu

The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project has told the President-elect, Bola Tinubu, to make public details of his assets, income, investments, liabilities, and interests.

The rights organisation also urged Tinubu to ask� Vice President-elect, Kashim Shettima, to declare his assets.

It also urged him to �immediately prioritise the full and effective respect for human rights, media freedom, the rule of law and the country�s judiciary by promptly obeying countless court judgments which the government of President Muhammadu Buhari has repeatedly treated with utter contempt and disdain.�

SERAP stated these in an open letter signed by its Deputy Director, Kolawole Oluwadare, dated May 27.

The group told Tinubu that it noted his promise to �kill corruption� and stressed that the President-elect should take it beyond rhetoric unlike the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.).

�SERAP notes your recent promise to �kill corruption�. However, this rhetoric is nothing new: the outgoing President Muhammadu Buhari, used a similar hollow anti-corruption phrase in 2015.

�As Nigerians have witnessed for eight years, Buhari has neither �killed corruption� nor obeyed court judgments on transparency and accountability,� the organisation wrote.

It added that publishing details of his assets and encouraging Shettima to do the same would �allow Nigerians to know your worth and the worth of other public officials,� SERAP said, adding that if Tinubu�s election is upheld by the judiciary, �your government can use transparency in asset declarations as a means of promoting public accountability and ending systemic corruption in the country.�