The first draft bill for Disclosure and Registration of Assets was presented to parliament in mid-January.

It requires that all government officials, employees and constituency must register all their wealth including financial and non-financial properties such as loans and land and other properties within 180 days of assuming office, according to newsbusinessethiopia.com.

The responsibility to register the property is given to the Federal Ethics and Anti-corruption Commission. The bill also states that all the registered property of government officials, employees and constituencies will be public while the properties of their families’ will be kept secretly by the Commission.

It empowers whistle blowers to tip the Commission about the hidden wealth of government officials, employees and constituencies. After the tips are verified and found to be concrete, the tipsters will be rewarded 25 percent value of the hidden and found wealth of the government official, employee or electorate.

According this bill, government officials, employees and constituencies are forbidden from accepting any gift or travel invitation from anywhere, which will create conflict of interest while discharging their responsibilities.