LAGOS— THE Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability
Project (SERAP) has sent an appeal over the decision of
the World Bank to provide insufficient information on how
the government of Nigeria spent the recovered stolen
funds by the late General Sani Abacha.
In the appeal by SERAP to the Access to Information (AI)
Appeals Board on the bank’s decision dated November
25, 2015, it requested the board to exercise its
prerogative and allow disclosure of specific information
and any feedback from the World Bank Evaluation Team
on the several issues, including the “evidence and list of
the 23 projects allegedly completed with recovered
Abacha loot, and whether the projects were actually
completed; and what became of the two abandoned
projects.”
In a statement by SERAP Deputy Executive Director,
Olukayode Majekodunmi, the body complained that the
World Bank failed to disclose sufficient information on the
spending of recovered stolen funds by the government.
To this end, it urged the AIAB to prevail on the bank to
provide evidence and the location of the eight health
centres built with recovered Abacha loot reviewed by the
World Bank as well as the evidence and location of the
18 power projects confirmed by the World Bank.
SERAP also urged the Appeal Board to direct the bank to
state “how the $50 million Abacha loot received before
2005 kept in the special account was spent," and
“evidence and location of schools which benefited from
the Universal Basic Education (UBE) programme in the
amount of N24.25 billion.”
It also prayed the Appeal Board to request for “evidence
and location of the 13 road projects completed with the
recovered Abacha loot, including the names of three of
the largest road and bridge projects in each geo-political
zone” as claimed by the bank.
SERAP noted it “considered the decision of the World
Bank a serious violation of the AI Policy, as it amounts to
improper or unreasonable restriction of access to
information.”
In the appeal, dated February 5, 2016, and signed by
SERAP deputy executive director, it said: “Following
receipt of several documents from the World Bank
totalling over 700 pages on the Abacha loot, SERAP
commenced independent investigations and verification
of some of the information supplied with appropriate
agencies and institutions of government.
“SERAP is concerned that the World Bank failed and/or
neglected to provide several portions of the information
requested on the spending of recovered Abacha loot
managed by the bank.”
It noted that one of the guiding principles of the Policy on
Access to Information (AI Policy) was recognizing the
right to an appeals process when a request for
information in the World Bank’s possession was
improperly or unreasonably denied.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/02/serap-appeals-world-banks-decision-to-hide-information-on-abacha-loot-spending/

For world bank to do that, something is 'fishing'. Anyway, lets see how serap could change things.

How come they wrote 700 pages of the projects yet no location of the projects