...Nigeria during President Olusegun Obasanjo's administration, vigorously pursued loot retrieval and repatriation as a national policy. This have meant a vigorous and prodigious pursuit of Nigerian assets and resources, in banks and other financial institutions in America and Europe...where looters have lodged such assets and resources. Nigeria expended money, huge amounts of money and energy, battling foreign banks and governments, in efforts to retrieve these loots. Foreign banks and governments, fought Nigeria's efforts, every step, after another step of the way.
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Why is it, that those who accuse us and proclaim publicly, the vapidity of corruption, are the same ones protecting the corrupt thieves and their plunder? Why is it, that those who are quick to scandalize Nigeria's name regarding corruption, are the same ones who are splendidly uninterested in being on Nigeria's side, in efforts to retrieve assets and resources which were stolen from Nigeria and stashed in their banks in America, Europe and Switzerland in particular? What explains this double standard?
ILN,
You have not included the fact that the Siwss and British banks
actually returned some of the
Abacha loots, and undertook the prosecution of some Abacha family members.
Your man
OBJ shot himself in the foot when he embarked on that
TTA. Later, at the forced compliance of his departure, his
EFCC was found to have been waging a war against OBJ opponents, whilst OBJ allies were swimming in the filth of freshly-looted funds.
Those two events were enough to sow seeds of doubts in the minds of those who previously thought OBJ should be helped in his quest.
Fallen man, regardless of colour or location, is prone to produce works of the flesh. Nevertheless, Western govts would often use budgeted allocation of funds to achieve the public good. Unlike African govts whose ministers would transfer those funds to private estates abroad.
The crisis in the UK parliament concerns the misuse of allowable personal expense claims. Not to be confused with State govts paying contractors for jobs not performed, etc.