A Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Mr Femi Falana, has asked the Economic
and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to investigate how $4 billion
recovered from former military Head of State, General Sani Abacha was
spent by the federal government.
The human rights activist wants
the EFCC to specifically confirm the actual amount recovered from the
Abacha loot and the extent of the alleged diversion of the said loot by
former Finance Minister, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, former NSA, Col. Sambo
Dasuki and others.
The Lagos lawyer, who made this request in a petition dated December
18, 2015, and which was sent to the anti-graft agency, said that “unless
the Abacha loot is fully accounted for, the Buhari administration will
find it difficult to receive the cooperation of many governments in the
ongoing efforts to recover the stolen wealth of the country”.
He
also said, “Following the death of the then military Head of State,
General Sani Abacha on June 8, 1998, his successor, General Abdulsalami
Abubakar ordered a probe into the looting of the Central Bank of
Nigeria from 1993-1998.
“At the end of the enquiry it was
established that the late dictator stole about $5 billion from the
vaults of the CBN through his National Security Adviser, Mr Mohammed
Gwazo. A substantial part of the stolen fund has since been traced to
over 140 bank accounts in western countries and some remote islands in
the world.
