As the world and innovations continue to evolve the need for a concerted effort to enhance transparency and hold public officers accountable through proper declaration of assets.
This was emphasized at a 2-day capacity building workshop on online asset declaration system organized by the center for social justice in conjunction with the code of conduct bureau and the Rule of law and anti corruption, RoLAC, Programme in Benin City.
Declaration of assets by public servants is one way of ensuring that corruption in public service is reduced to the barest and or eliminated totally.
The online asset declaration system is a new innovation to enhance the seamless process of declaring assets, hence the import of the workshop, according to the head of Education and advocacy, Code of conduct bureau, Koyonda Edward, who also spoke on the consequences of breaches in the declaration process.
What are public servants to declare during their assets declaration? The executive director Centre For Social Justice, Eze Onyekpere esq, provides answers
Edo state Director, Code of Conduct Bureau, Theresa Nwafor, lamented the non-compliance of public servants in Edo state and expressed hope for a shift of attitude regarding assets declaration
Director, office of the head of service, Edo State Edwin Edionweme and immediate past president, Conference of Non Governmental Organizations, Daisy Abiola, were among the participants
The online asset declaration system seeks to remove bottlenecks in the assets declaration system and it’s expected to encourage public officers to embrace declaration of assets.
