A professor of Law at the University of Lagos, Ayodele Atsenuwa, has said that most of the funds allegedly stolen under the administration of former President Goodluck Jonathan were money recovered from late Nigeria’s dictator, Sani Abacha.

A professor of Law at the University of Lagos, Ayodele Atsenuwa, has said that most of the funds allegedly stolen under the administration of former President Goodluck Jonathan were money recovered from late Nigeria’s dictator, Sani Abacha.

Speaking Friday in Abuja at a conference on Tracking Noxious Funds organized by the MacArthur Foundation and Kent Law School, Mrs. Atsenuwa advocated a more transparent way of handling loots recovered from corrupt Nigerians.

“From what we are seeing now, adequate steps need to be taken to address the issue of top government officials re-looting recovered loots,” she said.

The Senate ad-hoc committee set up to investigate the controversial reinstatement of former Chairman of the Presidential Task Force on Pension Reforms, Abdul-Rasheed Maina, had on Thursday accused the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, of allegedly ‘sharing’ 222 houses recovered by the pension reform team headed by Mr. Maina.

Mrs. Atsenuwa added that Nigerian law is against the whistleblower policy initiated by the President Muhammadu Buhari administration.

“The Nigerian law is against paying someone who blows a whistle,” she said.

Speaking earlier at the opening ceremony of the conference on Thursday, the Executive Secretary of the Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption, PACAC, Bolaji Owasanoye, said as at October 2017, over 5000 “whistles” had been “blown” since the introduction of the whistleblower initiative in the country.

Speaking on a topic: Law and Practice of the Whistle Blower Policy of Nigeria; Scope of Citizens’ Participation, he said citizens have the responsibility to ensure that governments act rightly.

Mr. Owasanoye said the whistleblower initiative was also designed to improve government revenues, adding that officials of the government agencies involved in the implementation of the policy would not benefit from the reward for the whistleblowers to encourage the citizens.

Also at the event, acting EFCC chairman, Ibrahim Magu, expressed hope that the conference would come up with more ideas that would aid the fight against corruption.

Also speaking at the opening ceremony, human rights activist, Femi Falana, said failure on the part of government to arrest the former Director-General of State Security Service, Ita Ekpeyong, and a former Director-General of the National Intelligence Agency, Ayo Oke, who had refused to report for questioning over corruption allegations, would send a wrong signal.

Mr. Falana said the two ex-government officials could be prosecuted for resisting arrest after the anti-graft body had obtained a warrant of arrest, citing the provisions of the Administration of Criminal Justice Act which barred any move to frustrate the rule of law.

The SSS last week prevented the EFCC from arresting Mr. Ekpeyong, and the NIA also protected Mr. Oke.

While Mr. Ekpenyong was invited by the EFCC about two weeks ago in respect of an investigation into the procurement of arms and equipment by the agency he once headed, Mr. Oke was invited for questioning in connection to the $43.4 million found in an apartment in Ikoyi, Lagos.

The EFCC and the SSS have been at loggerheads on various fronts since the inception of the Buhari administration.

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APC is presently re-looting money got from Abacha, the same man Mr anti corruption gave pass marks to.

Abacha and Buhari family, looting Nigeria blind since the early 70s.

PDP grand patron of looting and re looting.

Everything about PDP is doomed

What about all the ones being recovered by Saint Buhari and Apostle Magu?

I respect enlightened people but it's like that professor is an educated illiterate.

sarrki:
Everything about PDP is doomed

Buhari your paymaster opened his mouth to say that he doesn't know how to make money. Can you imagine? A president of a populous nation.

In my place, they will say, "no be mad person shame dey catch, na the relatives of the mad person"

It's obvious Buhari has no shame to confess what is pretty obvious. But If I were you, a BMC employee, I will go into hibernation until 2020 after the election

GEJ is the worst thing to happen to nigeria as president since 1960 B.C

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yarimo:
GEJ is the worst thing to happen to nigeria as president since 1960 B.C

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See this Hausa man

dukie25:
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See this Hausa man

so when did north Korea citizen living in north Korea became HAUSA man?

yarimo:
so when did north Korea citizen living in north Korea became HAUSA man?

So you're no longer Hausa man?

dukie25:

So you're no longer Hausa man?

question for NNAMDI KANU

And what're the APC doing? Just imagine the so called prof.Have he forgotten that staggering amount of so called recovered monies cant be accounted for by the professional criminals in this government.
Have he forgotten also that Buhari acknowledged that Abacha never stole a dime? So which money is he talking about anyway.Bunch of hypocrites.

And Buhari's men reinvested the recovered loot into phantom projects

What's the problem with all these UNILAG profs of law who keep making baseless accusations? From Osinbajo to that lousy Prof Akin Oyebode and now to another prof from the same department and the same school. It seems Osinbajo is really feeding these guys so fat that they just must keep running their mouths for him and his inept government to the detriment of the nation.

I stopped believing anything any UNILAG academic says either for or against the current government, ever since I realised that Prof Akin Oyebode is too partisan to make an objective analysis about Buhari and his gang of criminals.