The government has bowed to pressure to make public the wealth declarations of top officials, including the president, cabinet ministers and MPs. The decision to lift the veil of secrecy which the government had thrown over the contents of the wealth declaration forms filled out by public servants - including all the cadres of the military, judiciary and central government - is understood to have been taken after it was realized that continued secrecy was making a nonsense of efforts to contain high-level official corruption.