[OPINION] How Sani Abacha can combat COVID-19
The Muhammadu Buhari government is demonstrating an admixture of bravado and nervousness. I offer three pieces of evidence from last week.
Malami and Shehu were exploring how the government will spend the new mountain of repatriated Abacha loot, while Adesina was responding to a Nigerian who expressed the view that Buhari should chat with the media. The trouble with Malami, who apparently unable to sleep took his joy to Twitter, is that he was again desperately trying to avoid the L-word.
On April 30, Reuters reported the affirmation by the US in a letter, as follows: “Should any of the parties—including the United States—conclude that any of the returned funds had been used for an ineligible expenditure, a “claw-back” provision would then obligate to replace fully any such improperly diverted monies.”Not Nigeria, and certainly not Malami, who is no stranger to the precincts of lack of accountability.
But it was a ruse, and just weeks ago, as the world awaited the return of the latest Abacha account, the government owned up. In response to an FOI request, Malami told SERAP the government has “no records of the exact amount of public funds stolen by a former military head of state, Sani Abacha and no records of the spending of about $5 billion recovered loot for the period between 1999 and 2015.”Which brings me to Shehu, who had a lot of chest-beating to offer last week.
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