CCT trial: FG increases charges against Senate President, Bukola Saraki

The Federal government has amended and increased the charges leveled against senate president, Bukola Saraki, before the Code of Conduct Tribunal CCT. At the resumed hearing of the case today, counsel to Saraki, Kanu Agabi, notified the tribunal that his client has just received fresh charges added to the existing ones and that his client will want to enter plea for the fresh charges. Saraki is being tried at the tribunal on allegations of false declaration of assets during his tenure as Kwara state governor. In the meantime, the third prosecuting counsel in the case, Samuel Madujemu who is the Chief Administration Officer at CCB, today told the tribunal that Saraki upon assuming office as Kwara state governor, made his first assets declaration on September 16th 2003. According to Madujemu, a joint investigative team involving the CCB, Federal Ministry of Justice and the EFCC, discovered that Saraki falsely declared his assets that year. ”