SHOULD ABACHA RECOVERED LOOTS BE RE-LOOTED?

ZION B-BC   NEWSLETTER.   

(Looking at Nigeria and the World's Political System From a Godly Perspective).

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SHOULD ABACHA RECOVERED LOOTS BE RE-LOOTED? 

In spite of the strict conditions placed by governments of the United States, United Kingdom, Switzerland, New Jersey etc, that all “ABACHA LOOTS” recovered from their countries must be channeled towards social life-changing infrastructures that would positively affect the lower-rung of the citizens, successive Nigerian Administrations have woefully failed to give credible account of recovered stolen monies totaling about USD$2.2 billion dollars, according to Transparency International (TI), recent report!

In its SIX years of governance, the Buhari Administration had found it very difficult to present a total verifiable figure of such monies collected and a table of positive utilization of the recovered funds which has given vent to claims by political/economic watchers that it was being re-looted by its custodians!

It was rumored that a Nigerian facilitator to some of the recoveries was to be paid a whopping sum of USD$100 million for his efforts AND Buhari’s Government has neither confirmed nor denied the allegation!

BUT in piecemeal, President Buhari’s spoke persons had shed some light on how some of the funds had been unethically disbursed at government’s whims and caprices! Below are some excerpts of Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Mallam Shehu Garba when the sum of USD$311 million dollars was returned in May 2020 – his very words:

 *The money had been allocated for infrastructure development in the country.

*Part of the returned loot In 2019, from Switzerland - some “$320 million dollars are already being for government’s Free School-Feeding Scheme, a stipend for millions of disadvantaged citizens and grain grants for those in severe food hardship and without these funds, the fight against Covid-19 would be even tougher.”

*The recent FUNDS in May 2020 – some USD$311 million dollars returned from the United States have already been  allocated for vital and decades-overdue infrastructure development like the SECOND NIGER BRIDGE, LAGOS-IBADAN AND ABUJA-KADUNA-KANO EXPRESSWAYS AND IN THE MAMBILLA POWER PROJECT, which when completed will provide electricity to some three million homes – over ten million citizens- in our country and also creating tens of thousands of Nigerians construction jobs and local skills which can be useful in future projects 

According to Shehu, the return of the USD$311million dollars stolen from the citizens of Nigeria during the Abacha regime from the United States and Jersey and the ones before was a testament to the growing and deepening relationship between both governments!

He claimed that the Buhari Administration had “total and zero tolerance to corruption both in politics and public administration and would neither squander nor re-steal the stolen monies”, - the EXCUSE some foreign countries gave in the past for refusing to return such recovered funds to Nigeria! NO MENTION OF FIGHT AGAINST INSECURITY!

NIGERIANS EXPECT A CREDIBLE AND DETAILED STATEMENT OF ACCOUNT IN RESPECT OF RECOVERED FUNDS FROM THE BUHARI ADMINISTRATION AND NOT RHETORIC! 

Every Wednesday, President Buhari constitutes an illegal and unconstitutional “Federal Executive Council (FEC)”, where contracts were gleefully awarded to cabinet ministers without DUE PROCESS and billions of naira and dollars have been distributed to fund phantom projects while the poor citizen bear the brunt!

All over the nation INSECURITY is having free reign! Kidnappers are being paid RANSOMS in billions of naira! Boko Haram terrorists who have surrendered in their thousands are being DE-RADICALIZED according to Buhari’s Administration and yet SECURITY INSTITUTIONS – Military, Police – INEC, FRSC, buildings and equipments are being touched with ignominy, Governors convoys are being attacked by bandits/gunmen etc, etc!

President Buhari and his handlers cannot wish this plethora of security lapses away with untruths! He has to listen to the PEOPLE TO WHOM SOVEREIGNTY BELONG!

He must devolve Power from the Federal to the States; He must dissolve the SENATE and embrace a Parliamentary system to save RISING COSTS THAT HAVE GIVING BIRTH TO ANOTHER 2022 DEFICIT BUDGET OF N16.93TRILLION NAIRA BUDGET WHICH WAS ONLY N4.8TRILION IN 2015!

All of the above can be achieved through REFERENDUM before December 2021, if he truly wants to leave a “good legacy” behind – according to his fervent desire! “A WORD IS SUFFICIENT FOR THE WISE”      

The Story of late General Sanni Abacha, (20 September, 1943 – 8th June, 1998):

1) According to Wikipedia, he was a Nigerian military general who served as the military Head of State from 1993 until his death in 1998,

2) He was Army Chief of Staff between 1985 to 1990; Chief of Defence Staff between 1990 to 1993; and Minister of Defence.

3) In 1993, Abacha became the first Nigerian Army officer to attain the rank of a full military general without skipping a single rank.

4) His rule saw the achievement of several economic feats and also recorded human rights abuses and several political assassinations. 

5) He was dubbed a kleptocrat and a dictator by several commentators.

6) Abacha was born and brought up in Kano, attended the Nigerian Military College, Kaduna and was commissioned in 1963 after he had attended the Mons Officer Cadet School in Aldershot, England.

7)  In 1969, he fought during the Nigerian Civil War as a platoon and battalion commander and later became Commander of the 2nd Infantry Division in 1975.

8) In 1983, Abacha was general Commanding, 2nd Mechanized Division and was appointed member of the Supreme Military Council. 

9) From the rank of a second lieutenant, at the 3rd Battalion in Kaduna, Abacha was reported to have been involved all military coups from July 1966 till he became Head of State in 1993!

10) Abacha played a prominent role in the 1983 coup which brought General Muhammadu Buhari to power and the 1985 coup which removed Buhari and brought General Ibrahim Babangida to power to whom he became Chief of Staff and later Minister of Defence in 1990!

11) In September 1994, General Abacha as Head of State and Commander-In-Chief of the Armed Forces of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, he placed his military government through a Decree above the Judiciary and as such possessed absolutes power! He then proceeded to issue another Decree that gave him the right to detain anyone for up to three months without TRIAL!

12) Through his Chief Security Officer, Major Hamza al Mustapha, Abacha assembled a personal security force of 3,000 men trained in North Korea; re-trained personnel of the Nigerian Police Force with which he cracked down on criminals and dissidents especially, members of the National Democratic Coalition (NADECO), many of who were arrested for  allegedly detonating bombs across the country in protest against his military junta!

13) He clamped Moshood Abiola into jail for proclaiming himself President of Nigeria and charged him with treason following the JUNE 12 1993, Presidential Election which Abiola was acclaimed to have won AND also detained ex-President Aremu Obasanjo, for treason and for plotting a coup with ex-General Oladipo Diya and late General Shehu Yar’ Ardua who died in detention!

Sanni  Abacha, 10th Nigerian Head of State, was an authoritarian, “maximum” ruler whose five-year human rights record was adjudged to be very poor and yet schemed to  become a civilian president by October 1998, having coerced all FIVE Political Parties to nominate him as their consensus candidate, were it not for the unfortunate hand of death!

NATIONAL ECONOMY UNDER GENERAL SANNI ABACHA!

The Military ruler was credited with major increase in Nigeria’s foreign exchange reserves, reduction in external debt burden, involvement in major road construction across the nation, reduction inflation rate BUT in spite of all those “unprecedented economic achievements”, Abacha was reported to have looted, and transferred large sums of money to overseas accounts through his National Security Adviser (NSA), Ismaila Gwazo and his son Mohammed Abacha, through provision of FAKE NATIONAL SECURITY FUNDING REQUESTS”, which Abacha as Head of State approved!

According to a preliminary report published by ex-General Abdusalam Abubakar, transitional Government in November 1998, the funds were usually sent in cash or travelers’ cheques by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN). To Gwarzo, who took them to Abacha’s house and eventually laundered by one Mohammed Sada to offshore accounts and that an estimated sum ofUSD$1.4billion dollars in cash was delivered in that way!

Sanni Abacha was listed Number 4 among TEN most self-enriching leaders of two previous decades during which Abacha and his family were alleged to have embezzled between USD$1billion-$5billion!

THE UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE CONFIRMS ABACHA’S MASSIVE MONEY LAUNDERING!

On 7th August 2014, the US States Department of Justice, announced the forfeiture of USD$480million, described as the largest in its history to the Nigerian Government. Jersey discovered more than USD$267million dollars in funds that were allegedly laundered through US Banking System and deposited in a Jersey account (£210million in British pounds).

According to the official report, the US Department of Justice, Jersey Courts and the Federal Government of Nigeria, have completed a civil asset forfeiture against the funds and they will be divided between those countries! 

However, judgment favored Nigeria and the total amount of USD$480dollars had been collected from the US Government by Abubakar Malami (SAN), the Attorney General and Minister of Justice!  

Other repatriated Abacha loots include; USD$321million dollars from New Jersey/Switzerland; AND between 1999 and 2021, a total some of over USD$2.16 BILLION have been recovered according to Transparency International (TI)! 

TESTIMONY OF EX-GENERAL JERRY USENI – ABACHA’S BEST FRIEND!

In a media interview, ex-General Jerry Useni, vehemently claimed that Sanni Abacha never looted the Nigerian Treasury in spite of ex-General Abdusallam Abubakar’s official report!

“Abacha was neither a criminal nor as bad as people thought; nor was he corrupt. He was not aware that he looted the nation’s treasury because they were not involved in financial matters! Can what we are losing today be compared with what they claimed Abacha stole?    

“I am not aware of the allegation that Abacha stole USD$1BILLION-5BILLION DOLLARS! Most of the monies recovered were from his boys!”

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