You Can’t Stop Forfeiture Proceedings, Apex Court Tells Abacha’s Family Alex Enumah in Abuja A five-man panel of the Supreme Court on Friday refused to grant the request by members of the family of the late Gen. Sani Ab
A five-man panel of the Supreme Court on Friday refused to grant the request by members of the family of the late Gen. Sani Abacha for the stoppage of fresh criminal forfeiture proceedings against the ex-Head of State and some members of his family.
Both Mohammed and Abba Abacha had in 2013, on behalf of themselves and other members of the Abacha family, approached the apex court to set aside the judgments of the Court of Appeal and a Federal High Court, which had declined to stop investigations into the allegations of corruption against the family.
The grouse of the appellants was that the two lower courts erred in law when they arrived at the decision that the plaintiffs/appellants lacked necessary legal authority to initiate the suit seeking to stop investigations into corruption allegations against the family. Based on the allegations, the then AGF, acting for the federal government, made a request to the government of the Principality of Liechtenstein for mutual assistance and to initiate criminal proceedings of forfeiture against members of the Abacha family and companies in which they have interests.
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