Group tasks government on transparent disposal of recovered assets

By : Victor Gbonegun

Date: 18 April 2019 5:10am WAT

Candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) President Mohammadu Buhari delivers a speech during the party caucus emergency meeting on the postponed general elections in Abuja, on February 18, 2019. - National party leaders including candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) President Muhammadu Buhari and Vice President Yemi Osinbajo attended an emergency national caucus meeting of the party to discuss the way out following Saturdayís postponement of the general elections. (Photo by PIUS UTOMI EKPEI / AFP)

A non-governmental organisation, BudgIT Nigeria, has urged the Federal Government to dispose recovered assets in a transparent manner in line with Nigeria’s Open Government Partnership National Action Plan.

The group also advised government to make public reports of assets.

In a statement yesterday, the group observed that the order by President Muhammadu Buhari to the Ministry of Finance to sell the assets within six months was received with mixed feelings owing to supposed official secrecy.

It stressed the need for government to sustain its commitment to ‘Open Government partnership’ and strengthening of the nation’s asset recovery legislations.