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Shehu Sani, a senator representing Kaduna central, has made details of his assets public, in concord with the example of President Muhammadu Buhari who published his assets on Thursday.

The Kaduna senator, who has two wives and six children, said he has “two residential houses in Kaduna, two houses funder lease in Kaduna, two uncompleted office apartments in Kaduna, one residential house in Abuja, one family inherited house in kurfi, Katsina state, and one family inherited house in Minna, Niger state”.

Sani also disclosed he has N22 million in his bank account, N5 million worth of shares, royalties from over 30 books he authored and several vehicles.

“In line with moral example set by President Muhammadu Buhari and Vice President Osinbajo, and in conformity to the standard of transparent and exemplary leadership, and in submission to the public and popular demand for integrity test to all public office holders, in a new Nigeria on a filtration  process for a politically cleaner and decent future, I have decided to voluntarily make this public declaration,” he said.

“President Muhammadu Buhari and Vice President Osinbajo’s public declaration of their assets is a moral challenge to all public office holders. Their declaration challenges all men of conscience and docks all men who lay claim to self-dignity and self-worth. Their public declaration hangs a chain of guilt on the neck of all public office holders. To refuse to publicly declare assets is to continue to carry the burden of a moral thorn of guilt, in a nation whose generation of leaders for so long stands in the dock of ethical court.

“Public declaration of asserts does not make one a saint but it avails the public the knowledge of his or her degree of sin. Every public office holder carries with him a badge of suspicion and distrust until he prove his innocence or his degree of guilt.

“There are no saints and angels in politics, but the citizenry deserve to know the moral truth behind the facade of uprightness. A clean broom is needed to clean a dirty space. I chose to publicly declare and be pelted than to walk with the stain of suspicion and mistrust splashed on all public office holders by a generation of curious citizenry.”