“We must never forget, that corruption is perhaps, the most outrageous cause of our economic decline. Aside from barefaced stealing or waste of resources, the inflation of contracts and other procurements ensures that the cost of infrastructure necessary for development will always be unaffordable.”
Browsing: Ex-President Goodluck Jonathan
“My Lord, the process of getting the defendants to come to court has proven difficult,” the agency’s lawyer, Mr. Ojogbane, told the court.
04 October 2017, Sweetcrude, Lagos – Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Labour and Employment, Mr. Clement Onubuogo, was rearrested…
“The Nigerian anti-graft agency has opened communication with the United States and Swiss authorities with a view to getting the interim forfeiture order given in Abuja registered for enforcement.”
“Yes, we invited the former President already. The committee wrote him a letter, but he has not responded. He has not sent in any replies. We are still waiting for him,” he said.
“SERAP can confirm that the ICC is now considering our petition. We have received communication from Mark P. Dillon, head of information and evidence unit of the ICC indicating that the court will give due consideration to our petition,” the statement read.
“I resigned; I have a letter of resignation, which I tendered to the president and I issued a statement, stating why I was resigning; that I didn’t want my integrity to be tampered with. It was very clear; it is public knowledge; you people reported it,” Nnaji explained.
It charged the court to “bring to justice those suspected to be responsible for widespread and systematic corruption in the electricity sector in Nigeria; urge the Nigerian government to fulfill its obligations under the Rome Statute to cooperate with the ICC.”
According to him, “In fact, rather than wasting money, the Jonathan administration generated money for the federation from the sale of these assets which were seen to be transparent and followed global best practices.”
But, on the strength of weighty evidences placed before Nigerian courts, there are a string of judicial pronouncements ordering the forfeiture of all allegedly ill-gotten wealth to Mrs. Alison-Madueke’s former employers, the Federal Government of Nigeria.