Ade Adesomoju, Abuja The Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mr Abubakar Malami, has come under criticism on Twitter for describing the just-repatriated $311m looted by the la
te Head of State, Gen Sani Abacha, as “Abacha assets”.
protests, Omoyele Sowore, were furious about what they considered as improper labelling of the recovered loot., read, “I am happy to confirm that the Federal Republic of Nigeria on 4th May, 2020 received $311,797,866.11 of the Abacha assets repatriated from the United States and the Bailiwick of Jersey.”
In a six-paragraph statement released by Gwandu on February 2 announcing Malami’s trip to the US to represent Nigeria in the signing of the tripartite agreement between the governments of Nigeria, the US and Bailiwick of Jersey for the repatriation of the fund, there was no mention of Abacha’s name in the statement as the fund was repeatedly referred to as “looted assets”.
Nobel Laureate, Prof Wole Soyinka, in 2018 urged Buhari, who rode to power in 2015 on the promise to fight corruption headlong, to desist from praising Abacha., Sowore said, “Attorney General Abubakar Malami, woke up one day, labelled Nigerian wealth looted by the late Gen. Sani Abacha “Abacha assets” and people think he is stupid. He knows exactly what he’s doing. Just telling you all that we are just warehousing these assets for Abachas.
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