The Federal High Court sitting in Lagos in a landmark judgment has held that successive governments since the return of democracy in 1999 “breached the fundamental principles of transparency and accountability for failing to disclose details about the spending of recovered stolen public funds, including on a dedicated website.” The court then ordered the government of President Muhammadu Buhari to “ensure that his government, and the governments of former President Olusegun Obasanjo, former President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua, and former President Goodluck Jonathan account fully for all recovered loot.” The judgment was delivered on Friday by Hon Justice M.B. Idris following a Freedom of Information suit no: FHC/IKJ/CS/248/2011brought by Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP). The details ordered by the court to be disclosed include: information on the total amount of recovered stolen public assets by each government; the amount of recovered stolen public assets spent by each government as well as the objects of such spending and the projects on which such funds were spent. Justice Idris dismissed all the objections raised by the Federal Government and upheld SERAP’s arguments.
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Posted: at 1-03-2016 01:23 PM (9 years ago) | Addicted Hero
This would have been a good development, but d question is,,,,will it work??of course it will not,we have criminals that have perfected the act of looting, criminality and manipulation, fake people
Posted: at 1-03-2016 01:32 PM (9 years ago) | Gistmaniac
Gbam!!!! Dis is wat I want to read here. Obj and other shld account for all d money not some pple. Nobody is a sacred cow in dis country. Meanwhile una go exhume Year adua from grave to account for him own o. Though I trust Buhari to cover for his brothers.
Posted: at 1-03-2016 01:38 PM (9 years ago) | Addicted Hero
We should have started the whole thing from the Government of Lord Lugard. One wonders the stupid logic some so-called Nigerians apply in their reasoning. Just because a crooked VIP has been caught in his crooked deal, everyone that matters in the Country must be roped in, in the attempt to justify corruption.
Posted: at 1-03-2016 04:15 PM (9 years ago) | Gistmaniac
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