FG set to repatriate $321m Abacha, €6.8m Ibori loots

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The federal government is set to repatriate another $321 million Abacha loot in a tripartite understanding between the Island of Jersey, the United States of America and Nigeria.

The attorney general of the federation and minister of justice, Mr. Abubakar Malami said the agreement on the repatriation will be signed next week.

He said the decision was taken at Wednesday’s federal executive council meeting presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari.

Malami who spoke on the outcome of the meeting on the Abacha loot said based on the memorandum of understanding reached by the three parties, the money would be spent on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, the 2nd Niger Bridge and the Kaduna-Kano Expressway.

Malami added that a separate €6.8m in connection with the former governor of Delta State, Mr James Ibori, would also be repatriated.

However, he said negotiations had yet to start on the Ibori loot.

He also said discussions would soon start on looted assets linked to the former minister of petroleum resources, Mrs. Dezieni Alison-Madueke.

However, he said no figure had been placed on the Alison-Madueke asset.

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