US blocks Attorney general Malami’s lawyers from taking a cut on $500m Abacha Loot

The United States says it will only deal with Nigeria on a government-to-government basis for the restitution of $500 million Abacha Loot, senior presidency sources have informed TheCable.

Officials of the US department of justice (also known as DoJ), according to the sources, told President Muhammadu Buhari pointblank during his visit to the US that they would not deal with any third party in the restitution of the funds.

Abubakar Malami, the attorney-general of the federation, had attempted to engage private lawyers who were going to take a cut as “legal fees” — even though they did not play any role in the recovery of the stolen funds traced to the former military head of state, Sani Abacha, who ruled Nigeria from 1993 to 1998.

The recoveries were made in 2014 under President Goodluck Jonathan and domiciled with the US government — and all the lawyers involved had been paid 4% of the funds as their fees.

The funds were to be returned to Nigeria on the condition that the federal government would sign an MoU to avoid the mismanagement associated with recoveries under President Olusegun Obasanjo.

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So thief obj and ineffectual buffoon mismanaged abacha returned loot.

And the lazy idiotic pigs of biafra claim both thieves as their hero

This attorney general Malami is the most corrupt official in this regime. He is always mentioned in various under table dealings. Why Buhari insists on keeping him is a mystery.
Prof Osinbanjo stop disturbing us with stories of grand corruption, it is still alive and well in this government.

Buhari was going to collect serious money from that deal.

buhariguy:
So thief obj and ineffectual buffoon mismanaged abacha returned loot.

And the lazy idiotic pigs of biafra claim both thieves as their hero

You're very unstable, repeating the same thing over and over again. Dem say make you go school you refused.

Someone on twitter mentioned that the lawyers from Malami's associates chambers were already celebrating the heist before this news broke out

enlady:
This attorney general Malami is the most corrupt official in this regime. He is always mentioned in various under table dealings. Why Buhari insists on keeping him is a mystery.
Prof Osinbanjo stopping disturbing us with stories of grand corruption, it is still alive and well in this government.

Malami performs the under table corrupt deals for buhari while, the president pretends to be a saint. This is the same malami who carried out buhari's order to recall Maina back to civil service.

Paperwhite:
AGF Malami remained in post because Buhari is simply corrupt.Useless government!

The way buhari is running Nigeria is exactly how he ran PTF. His associates engulfed themselves in embezzlement while buhari pretends at the corner as if nothing is happening. That was how they embezzled N25 billion PTF funds in 1997-1998 that promted OBJ to set up a committee to probe activities of PTF.

You may have some point.

They were ready to release any fund or negotiate odious loan made to Nigeria; under OBJ as long as Okonjo Iweala from World Bank was appointed Finance Minister

buhariguy:
So thief obj and ineffectual buffoon mismanaged abacha returned loot.

And the lazy idiotic pigs of biafra claim both thieves as their hero

melvinjames:
Buhari was going to collect serious money from that deal.

WAS GOING bawo?

buhariguy:
So thief obj and ineffectual buffoon mismanaged abacha returned loot.

And the lazy idiotic pigs of biafra claim both thieves as their hero

you are a big foool

You must be an aboki from daura