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Re: FG Fails To Release Looters’ List, Seven Months After by Rayfield: 4:17pm On Feb 17, 2018
Those with First Class should top the list.
Then Second Class Upper
Then Second Class Lower
Then Third Class
The rest should be Ordinary Diploma in Corruption.
Re: FG Fails To Release Looters’ List, Seven Months After by debolayinka(m): 4:18pm On Feb 17, 2018
Last time I checked Buhari has zero respect for the law (court).
Re: FG Fails To Release Looters’ List, Seven Months After by Bullhari007(m): 4:19pm On Feb 17, 2018
citizens get ur PVC we for job to do
Re: FG Fails To Release Looters’ List, Seven Months After by Nackzy: 4:27pm On Feb 17, 2018
Them don still the money tire... They are editing the list... They will bring it out
Re: FG Fails To Release Looters’ List, Seven Months After by okosodo: 4:28pm On Feb 17, 2018
jnfoage:
And PDP could not trace his account? So fela is now a source? The worst you can do is to continue lying against him and it ends here and beer parlour.
sources at midland bank confirmed it and besides, the internet is your friend. It not hidden, except that you will refuse to get facts because as far as you are concerned, buhari is a saint
Re: FG Fails To Release Looters’ List, Seven Months After by Adefemiaderoju1: 4:29pm On Feb 17, 2018
Why would they list when majority of them are part of the current government and the senators etc, Senate president Bukola Saraki is their gang leader.
Re: FG Fails To Release Looters’ List, Seven Months After by jnfoage: 5:51pm On Feb 17, 2018
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okosodo:
sources at midland bank confirmed it and besides, the internet is your friend. It not hidden, except that you will refuse to get facts because as far as you are concerned, buhari is a saint
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Instead of typing this nonsense, you should have just provided the internet link for everyone to see. You made a statement and I should be the one to comfirm it for you. I dare you to prove it with the internet if you are not a paid agent spreading senseless lies. If it is the Republic Reporters bunkum you are banking on, what stops pdp from using it against him since it was widely believed he is a man of integrity. Where is the account details in the report showing that Buhari is an account holder in the said bank?
Re: FG Fails To Release Looters’ List, Seven Months After by lonelydora: 6:24pm On Feb 17, 2018
Omooba77:
Seven months after a Federal High Court sitting in Lagos ordered the Federal Government to release to Nigerians the list of public officials from whom public funds had been recovered, the list has yet to be released by the authorities.



Justice Hadiza Shagari had on July 6, 2017, in her judgment in a suit filed by the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, directed the Federal Government to “immediately” release the names of the officials, the circumstances under which the funds were recovered and the exact amount recovered from each public official.

While responding to the judgment, the Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, had said the government would publish the names of the looters, in compliance with the court order, noting that the Federal Government totally agreed with the ruling.

The Federal Government had on June 4, 2016, through the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, disclosed that it had recovered cash sums of N78,325,354,631.82, $185,119,584.61, £3,508,355.46 and €11,250 between May 29, 2015, and May 25, 2016. He added that the assets and cash seized under interim forfeiture totalled $9bn, N126bn, £2.4m and €303,399.

And on October 12, 2017, the acting Chairman of EFCC, Ibrahim Magu, said at a forum that the cash recovered through the whistleblower policy had risen to over N30bn, in different foreign currencies.

Meanwhile, the refusal to release the list or obey the court judgment was preceded by the promise voluntarily made in December 2015 by the President when he said he would unveil the names of the looters. He had said the only thing stopping the Central Bank of Nigeria from releasing the list at that time was to avoid jeopardising investigations and further recoveries.

He also reiterated the promise in May 2016 at an anti-corruption summit in London that he would give a comprehensive report on the loot recovered on May 29, 2016 – Democracy Day, which he failed to do.

And till date, the names of the looters have yet to be released.

Speaking on the protracted delay, the Executive Director, SERAP, Adetokunbo Mumuni, said the refusal of the Buhari-led administration to make the list public, as directed by the court, had called into the question the much-touted integrity of the administration.



He said, “Once you make a promise, you should fulfil it. They said they would fight corruption, judgement was obtained to help you to fight corruption, yet you are not obeying the court order, it questions your integrity and sincerity as a government. This government is not doing what it promised.”

Also, the President of Campaign for Democracy, Mr. Bako Abdul Usman, described as unfortunate the way the present administration had been flouting court orders, saying even though the African Union made the President the model of anti-corruption fight in Africa, that “does not really hold water back home when looking at the nitty-gritty.”

He added, “If that list is released today, people within the circle of the President would be part and parcel of it. That is why there is a constraint in releasing the list. Impunity, high-handedness and corrupt practices are easy to come by in this administration.”

A legal practitioner and public affairs analyst, Liborous Oshoma, said a government that won an election on account of its promise to be transparent didn’t have to be compelled by the court to name and shame looters, stressing that the excuses it gave had already made it another round of propaganda.

He noted that the reluctance to release the list could be because the government bloated the amount it recovered, making it difficult to put names to the figures. He explained that it would be an investment in uncertainty to expect the government to release the names before the next general elections because it might need the influence and monetary contribution of some of the looters.

He added, “Do they (government) also need a legal paperwork to release the names of those that owned up voluntarily, not due to their conscience but because it was either obvious or government was closing in on them? To serve as deterrence to others, shouldn’t a transparent government release those names.

“Now that elections are here, these (looters) are the same people they would go back to source money from. So, if anybody believes that the government would name and shame those looters before the election, the person must be joking, because some alleged criminals would even be embraced because of their money and influence, especially when you have desperation for a second term.”

But when asked when the names would be released as he promised in July 2017, the AGF said a committee set up by the President was still auditing the list of the looters.

In a text message he sent as a response to Saturday PUNCH’s inquiry, he said, “Audit work is in progress by a committee put in place by the President.”


http://punchng.com/seven-months-after-fg-fails-to-release-looters-list/
Ohhh! you still believe in this government?
Re: FG Fails To Release Looters’ List, Seven Months After by Reference(m): 6:27pm On Feb 17, 2018
The list cannot be released because everyone knows what everyone else has done.

In a nutshell if looter A is included and looter B is not the mudslinging starts and who knows where it will end because when it hits the fan it can get blown as far back as the seventies and eighties and then everyone will be soiled. So it is in everyone's interest that what has died in the cupboard stays in the cupboard. If you know it is labelled 'worms', why open the can and go 'urrghh...'
Wetin consan you.
Re: FG Fails To Release Looters’ List, Seven Months After by Yankee101: 8:15pm On Feb 17, 2018
They should put Abba Kyari and other APC looters on top of the list
Re: FG Fails To Release Looters’ List, Seven Months After by bejeria101(m): 10:45pm On Feb 17, 2018
Read my lips! There is no list!
Re: FG Fails To Release Looters’ List, Seven Months After by ugbede69(m): 12:00am On Feb 18, 2018
a beg my tears don finish can someone please just help my cry for this shithole?
Re: FG Fails To Release Looters’ List, Seven Months After by uvalued(m): 2:45am On Feb 18, 2018
Fg disobeys court order...
Re: FG Fails To Release Looters’ List, Seven Months After by Nobody: 9:01am On Feb 18, 2018
govt of scamers, by scamers, for dumbskulls!
Re: FG Fails To Release Looters’ List, Seven Months After by Ovamboland(m): 9:20am On Feb 18, 2018
Omeokachie:
Because it was all propaganda.

The same government that claimed to have met an "empty" treasury are today claiming to have grown foreign reserves from $29b which they inherited to $42b!

Problem with telling lies is that you would need even bigger lies to cover the previous ones.
Try smart small, is the foreign reserve part of the federation account?
Re: FG Fails To Release Looters’ List, Seven Months After by James2424: 10:45am On Feb 18, 2018
This Govt is a joke
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