Ade Adesomoju, AbujaThe Federal Government has filed three counts of false declaration of assets against Delta-North Senator, Peter Nwaoboshi, at the Code of Conduct Tribunal. The charges were filed by the Office of the Department of Public Prosecutions, Federal Ministry of Justice on Monday. It shows that Nwaoboshi is to be tried for allegedly making false assets declaration in his Form CCB1 submitted to the Code of Conduct Bureau by failing to declare three bank accounts he was said to have been maintaining with Sterling Bank (Nigeria) Ltd since 2015. Accompanying the charges filed against the Delta-North senator was a document titled, ‘an application to commence trial’. The summary of the prosecution’s case also attached to the charges, read, “It is the prosecution’s case that the defendant, a serving senator was investigated and found to have falsely declared his assets in his assets declaration Form CCB1 No.

Source: Punch June 20, 2019 13:07 UTC