The Nigerian Institution of Estate Surveyors and Valuers and its President, Olorogun Omeru, have sued the Code of Conduct Bureau and others for receiving from public officers completed assets declaration forms not accompanied by report signed by professional valuers.

Apart from the bureau, others joined as defendants, in the suit which was filed before the Federal High Court in Abuja and marked FHC/ABJ/CS/653/2015 are the Attorney-General of the Federation and the Chairman of the CCB, Mr. Sam Saba.

In their suit filed as an originating summons, the plaintiff seek two declaratory prayers and two restraining orders against the defendants.

They want the court to declare that the current practice of receiving completed assets declaration forms from public officers without being accompanied by a valuation report signed by a registered estate surveyor and valuer “contravened the spirit and letters of section 3(a) and (b), Part 1 of the Third Schedule of the Constitution as well as section 3(a) and (b) of the Code of Conduct Bureau and Tribunal Act.”

They therefore want the court to make an order of perpetual injunction restraining the CCB from accepting and or receiving assets declaration arms from public officers without a valuation report signed by a registered valuer in accordance with Estate Surveyors and Valuers (Registration, etc) Act.

An affidavit filed in support of the suit by the President of the institution, Omeru, read in part, “That it is within my knowledge, information and belief that public officers are required to set out details of their movable and immovable assets and specify the value of the assets in the assets declaration form.

“That it is within my knowledge, information and belief that only a vauer registered by the Estate Surveyors and Valuers Registration Board of Nigeria has the training, experience and the capacity to ascertain the value of immovable assets.

“That it is within my knowledge, information and belief that the current practice by public officers is to allocate figures to their assets without any professional input or ascertainment of the true value of the assets.”

No date has been fixed for the hearing of the suit.

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