Modibbo Hamman-Tukur, director of
the Nigerian Financial Intelligence Unit (NFIU), says assets of all public
officials and senior political office holders will soon be open to the public.
NAN quoted Hamman-Tukur as saying
this when he appeared before the house of representatives committee on
financial crimes to defend the budget of his organisation on Thursday.
He explained to the committee
that it was part of the conditions for lifting the suspension of the NFIU by
the Egmont Group of Financial Intelligence Units.
“With the lifting of the
suspension, it is likely that all assets of all leaders, public officials and
political office holders will be displayed,” the director said.
“They want to see us work with
the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Nigeria National Petroleum
Corporation (NNPC), Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) and the Nigeria
Communications Commission (NCC).
“They want us to work closely
with the presidency, Code of Conduct Bureau (CCB) and the Corporate Affairs
Commission (CAC). They want to see the assets of all public officials displayed
publicly.
“But it will be good that the
beneficiary owner data base will be domiciled with the Code of Conduct Bureau
(CCB), and we will subscribe because CCB has assets declarations of all public
officers.”
Hamman-Tukur said the EU raised
concerns bordering on terrorism, kidnapping and corruption.
Speaking on the 2018 budget
performance, he said the NFIU had a total budget of N1.185 billion made up of
N385,310 million as personnel cost, N600 million as overhead while N200 million
was for capital cost.
According to him, the capital
release till date stands at N174,946 million out of the budgeted amount of
N200.1 million.
He added that utilisation
percentage stood at about 12 per cent while the balance stood at N154,936
million.
On the 2019 budget, the director
revealed that a total of N8.244 billion had been proposed, made up of N1.154
billion for overhead cost, N4,124 billion as capital cost while N2,865 billion
for personnel cost.
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