A statement by the Chairman of the CCB, Mr. Sam Saba, released by the Press and Protocol Unit of the Bureau on Thursday, stated that the exercise involved the physical appearance of the concerned public officers before the bureau for conference and field verification' of their declared assets.
Conference verification requires public officers to present documents relating to their declared assets to designated officials of the Bureau.
On the other hand, field verification involves public officers taking CCB officials to locations of their declared landed, fixed and other assets that could not be conveniently moved to the bureau’s office.
He stated that by virtue of Paragraph 11 of Part 1 of the Fifth Schedule to the 1999 Constitution (as amended), “every public officer is required to submit to the Code of Conduct Bureau a written declaration of all properties, assets and liabilities and those of his/her spouse (if not a public officer) and his unmarried children under the age of 18 years.”
