Tag: Ibori loot

FG’s Accountant-General recants, says £4.2m Ibori loot still being awaited

Aminu Imam

The Accountant-General of the Federation, Ahmed Idris,  yesterday said the £4.2m looted by the former governor of Delta State James Ibori has not been received. This revelation is coming against the background of  Idris’s comments to a committee of the House of Representatives on Tuesday, that the money had been returned to the accounts of the Delta State government. This was clearly a contradiction to an earlier assertion by the Attorney-General of the Federation, (AGF) and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, who said the money would be spent on some…

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Recovered £4.2m Ibori loot returned to Delta – FG

Aminu Imam

The Accountant-General of the Federation, Ahmed Idris, has said the £4.2m looted by a former Governor of Delta State, James Ibori, which the Federal Government recently repatriated from the United Kingdom, has been returned to the State. Besides, the AGF, pleaded with the House to make the Treasury Single Account, (TSA) legal and constitutional, for it to be more effective, as the Attorney-General of Federation, (AGF) Abubakar Malami, (SAN), rejected claims by the House Panel that he spent over N3billion from funds recovered graft funds. He was responding to posers…

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Nigeria receives £4.2m Ibori loot alert — AGF Malami

Aminu Imam

Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, has confirmed that the Federal Government of Nigeria has received £4,214,017.66 of the loot associated with the family members of former Delta State governor, James Ibori. This is made known by the Special Assistant on Media and Public Relations, Office of the Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, (AGF), Umar Gwandu, in a statement issued to news men in Abuja yesterday. According to the statement the amount has been credited into the designated Federal Government account with naira equivalent value…

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