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New Jersey To Return $8.9m Looted Under Jonathan To Nigeria by Islie(op): 12:00pm On Jan 16, 2024

Jersey’s Royal Court has ruled in favour of returning stolen assets valued at £6.9 million ($8.9 million) to Nigeria.

The decision comes after Jersey’s Attorney General issued a forfeiture notice in November, asserting that the funds, deposited in a Jersey bank account, were likely misappropriated by Nigerian government officials in 2014.

The illicit transfer of funds was reportedly disguised as government-sanctioned contracts for arms purchases during Boko Haram incursions in Nigeria between 2009 and 2015.

LEADERSHIP reports that former President Goodluck Jonathan of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) was in power between 2010 and 2015. It will also be recalled that a lot of controversy had surrounded the purchase of weapons in the fight against insurgency with the then National Security Adviser (NSA), Sambo Dasuki, being accused of diverting funds meant for security equipment.

Also in late 2014, a private jet belonging to the-then President of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor, was arrested in South Africa with $10m cash, which was allegedly meant for the purchase of military weapons.

The Jersey court found that most of the funds, initially intended for legitimate arms deals, had been diverted through foreign bank accounts and shell companies linked to the former ruling party in Nigeria.

Jersey’s Attorney General, Mark Temple KC, noted the collaboration between Jersey and the Federal Republic of Nigeria in the recovery process.

Temple stressed the effectiveness of the 2018 Forfeiture Law in combating corruption and restoring funds to victims of crime. Plans are underway to negotiate an asset return agreement with the Nigerian government.

He said: “This case again demonstrates the effectiveness of the 2018 Forfeiture Law in recovering the proceeds of corruption and restoring that money to victims of crime.

“I now intend to negotiate an asset return agreement with the Federal Republic of Nigeria.”

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Re: New Jersey To Return $8.9m Looted Under Jonathan To Nigeria by SharingIsLife(m): 12:03pm On Jan 16, 2024

Lol.
From #Abachaloots
To #Jonathanloots.

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Re: New Jersey To Return $8.9m Looted Under Jonathan To Nigeria by Crime007: 12:06pm On Jan 16, 2024

Lol 😂😂😂😂😆 dream on

Re: New Jersey To Return $8.9m Looted Under Jonathan To Nigeria by Treasure17(m): 12:06pm On Jan 16, 2024

Return it to who exactly? Cause the person in charge right now is also a parasite.

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Re: New Jersey To Return $8.9m Looted Under Jonathan To Nigeria by oz4real83(m): 12:08pm On Jan 16, 2024

Nigeria has had two "bazaar govts", the GEJ and PMB govts, these people allowed a free-for-all looting of Nigeria by their allies and even enemies embarassed

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Re: New Jersey To Return $8.9m Looted Under Jonathan To Nigeria by coputa(m): 12:08pm On Jan 16, 2024*

Nigeria leaders has proven over time that they are not in power to lead the people but to loot the treasury.

It gets worse with every government,if not for the oil, nigeria would have crumbled

I still belong to the school of thought that this country should be shared.with the small unit,it will be more easier to managed.

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Re: New Jersey To Return $8.9m Looted Under Jonathan To Nigeria by GOFRONT(m): 12:08pm On Jan 16, 2024

Abacha still showing us love from the grave.

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Re: New Jersey To Return $8.9m Looted Under Jonathan To Nigeria by Obiedun(m): 12:23pm On Jan 16, 2024

Thieves.

Re: New Jersey To Return $8.9m Looted Under Jonathan To Nigeria by TimeManager(m): 12:30pm On Jan 16, 2024*

Mr Fagbemi is a silent ballistic, he's going after all the hidden loots. $8.9million is just a tip in an ocean but a good starting point, if names were revealed, there's no way Madam Ngozi Okonjo Iweala is escaping the hammer, how that woman run the economy aground was unpardonable. She met $20billion in the ECA but left us with $2billion and she was allowed to walk away just like that, with many singing her praises for doing nothing. That woman is keeping our yams, we must get them back.

-kiss the truth!

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Re: New Jersey To Return $8.9m Looted Under Jonathan To Nigeria by Cassandraloius: 12:48pm On Jan 16, 2024

Really? Wonder shall never end!

Re: New Jersey To Return $8.9m Looted Under Jonathan To Nigeria by EmperorCaesar(m): 12:52pm On Jan 16, 2024

Buhari surrounded himself with corrupt people
BUT GEJ surrounded himself with saints and Angels

New Jersey should look again, the looted funds was under Obj cause GEJ hired only men from a saintly region cheesy

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Re: New Jersey To Return $8.9m Looted Under Jonathan To Nigeria by Obiedun(m): 12:58pm On Jan 16, 2024

Treasure17:
Return it to who exactly? Cause the person in charge right now is also a parasite.

You lie

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Re: New Jersey To Return $8.9m Looted Under Jonathan To Nigeria by Obiedun(m): 1:01pm On Jan 16, 2024

ALCOHOLKILLS:
fake news

Keep quiet

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Re: New Jersey To Return $8.9m Looted Under Jonathan To Nigeria by oluseyiforjesus(m): 1:25pm On Jan 16, 2024

Hmmm

Re: New Jersey To Return $8.9m Looted Under Jonathan To Nigeria by Aldebaran(m): 1:25pm On Jan 16, 2024

Re: New Jersey To Return $8.9m Looted Under Jonathan To Nigeria by money121(m): 1:25pm On Jan 16, 2024

Abi jonanthan sef wan used Abacha style for Us cry

Won ti pa country yi si ara

Chaii

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Re: New Jersey To Return $8.9m Looted Under Jonathan To Nigeria by santaclaws: 1:26pm On Jan 16, 2024

But "Jonathan was a saint" grin

Jonathan who sacked Sanusi from the CBN for exposing the truth and gave us Emefiele who later became a decade long headache for Nigerians and encouraged corruption in the banking sector...

Same Jonathan tenure witnessed Dieziani, the biggest thieving minister in Nigeria's history.

I still maintain "Jonathan was a saint" 😉

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Re: New Jersey To Return $8.9m Looted Under Jonathan To Nigeria by Skillsnigeria: 1:26pm On Jan 16, 2024

That's good

Re: New Jersey To Return $8.9m Looted Under Jonathan To Nigeria by FeliciaOja(f): 1:26pm On Jan 16, 2024

Wow

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Re: New Jersey To Return $8.9m Looted Under Jonathan To Nigeria by Ttipsy(f): 1:26pm On Jan 16, 2024

If there was international award for looting and corruption

Nigeria would have become the headquarters

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Re: New Jersey To Return $8.9m Looted Under Jonathan To Nigeria by Burgerlomo: 1:27pm On Jan 16, 2024*

Get your fact right before posting nonsense because New Jersey is one of the States in the US while Jersey is an Island country. .So the country of Jersey is the one using a Jersey Royal Court and not the State of New Jersey.

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