Court Orders Obasanjo, Yar'Adua and Jonathan Govt To Account For Recovered Loot

   

A Federal High Court in Lagos in lagos has ordered Ex President Obasanjo, Yar'Adua and Jonathan's Government To account for all recovered loots during their administrations.
In a Judgement delivered by Justice MB Idris in a Freedom of Information suit filed by Socio-Economic Right and Accountability Project (SERAP),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.”
Justice Idris then ordered that 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 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.
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