Loot recovered under Buhari returned to looters, says ex-aide, Obono-Obla

Okoi Obono-Obla, has revealed the loot recovered during the administration of former President Muhammadu Buhari was returned to the looters

A former chairman of the Special Investigation Panel for the Recovery of Public Property, Okoi Obono-Obla, has revealed that the loot recovered during the administration of former President Muhammadu Buhari was returned to the looters.The former SPIP chairman also spoke on the level of corruption in the Nigerian system, lamenting that it is very bad.

“Some of the things I recovered were returned to the looters. There was this case of someone from whom I recovered over 80 brand new X-class Mercedes Benz cars from Jabi, Abuja,” Obono-Obla said. “We got an order of interim forfeiture from the court pending the hearing of the case. So, I sent a memo to Malami to brief him on what we were doing, only for him to tell me that he never mandated me to do things I investigated.”

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