The federal government explained yesterday that its recent withdrawal of the criminal proceedings against Mohammed Abacha in Nigeria became necessary to facilitate the recovery of about $380million from the Luxembourg proceedings and $550million from forfeiture proceedings instituted by the US Department of Justice.

It also described as unfortunate and unfair what it termed “blanket criticism” by Transparency International (TI) condemning the decision of the Jonathan administration to withdraw the money laundering charges against the Abacha family.

In a statement it issued accusing the federal government of encouraging impunity by allowing the Abacha family to be set free, TI had contended that “allowing the theft of public funds to go unpunished sends the wrong message that those with powerful connections can act with impunity”, especially as the government has not given adequate reasons for dropping the charges.

But the attorney general of the federation (AGF) and minister of justice, Mr Mohammed Adoke, who made the federal government’s position known, noted that while TI’s statement in this regard was not only “an unfortunate rush to judgement without the benefit of facts”, nothing could be further from the truth.

In a statement issued by his chief press secretary, Mr Ambrose Momoh, Adoke said, “The blanket criticism by TI, which has little bearing on the facts, is therefore, unfortunate. The singling out of Nigeria for criticism by TI for adopting measures, which are globally used in cases of this nature and which have produced good results for the country is unfair.

“The Federal Ministry of Justice, therefore, wishes to assure the Nigerian public that it will at all times be guided by national interest, the need to promote transparency and accountability and international best practices in the ministry’s dealings with the Abacha family and indeed, all such recovery proceedings”.

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Adoke Is not a man of integrity so anything coming out of his mouth is pure fraud. He has just demonstrated to us a pure lack of knowledge of his position he has abuse and used the right words in the wrong way.

We know you the minister will never admit you have taken your own cut from abachas loot. Just go and enjoy it when the right person take over your position at the appropriate time that God has given us, the truth shall come out and set you free or luck you up simple.

No need to tell us, we all know that d action is just to gain political friends.

The Government is interested to recover the Abacha's Family loot because they want to re-embezzle it,. In fact, they already have decided on the "Sharing Formular" that will be used.





Trust our Present crop of politicians @ your own RISK

teeebugs: The federal government explained yesterday that its recent withdrawal of the criminal proceedings against Mohammed Abacha in Nigeria became necessary to facilitate the recovery of about $380million from the Luxembourg proceedings and $550million from forfeiture proceedings instituted by the US Department of Justice.

What I don't understand is why the present administration honoured that thief with a National award after these atrocious amounts of Dollars, this dictator looted. Dafuq is wrong with GEJ?

Shameless government.

"Common stealing is not corruption" - so says GEJ.

We seriously don't have any government in Nigeria that is capable of fighting corruption.

It's even so sad that some people will go to any length to support and patronise this GEJ, fresh air indeed.

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