West Bank’s Piecemeal Release of Abacha’s Loot: A Deception to Cover Living Looters – Shehu Sani
West Bank’s Piecemeal Release of Abacha’s Loot: A Deception to Cover Living Looters – Shehu Sani
By ALEX UANGBAOJE
The Senate Committee Chairman on Foreign and Domestic Debts , Senator Shehu Sani on Saturday questioned the piecemeal releases of late former Head of State, General Sani Abacha’s loot, adding that it is a deception to divert attention away from those that are living and have looted the treasury of this country.
According to the Senator representing Kaduna Central , in the last 18 years Nigeria has received series of releases of funds by banks in Switzerland and other countries of the west on what is called Abacha’s loot , but thinks the western financial institution and banks are simply deceiving Nigerians.
He emphasised, “Nigerians are systematically being misinformed and deceived”.
Senator Sani ,who stated this while addressing the Igbo Muslim Women Forum today in Kaduna queried, “ If actually Abacha had such huge amount of money in the western banks , why cant they return all the money and send it back to Nigeria?”
He also asked , ” Why is it only Abacha , Abacha , while those looter that are alive ,their loots have not being recovered and returned to Nigeria ?”
“I think Abacha’s loot is simply a deception by western financial institution to cover up the loot of those living by throwing some crumbs of the loot to us, thinking we would be appeased and our attention drawn away from those who are living and keeping our monies in their country.”
Though Senator Sani said the late Abacha arrested and jailed him , “We would be unfair to him if we say there are good things that he did well. Abacha did good things that many people that are alive today have not done.”
The Deputy Senate Chairman on Foreign Affairs however submitted that if late Abacha was a looter , “There are so many looters and Nigerians want to know the living looters not the dead ones . They want to the monies stashed away by living looters not the dead ones.
Meanwhile , he challenged the West to come out openly and release all the monies looted by those in government or out of government immediately ,so that Nigerians can know the looters, who are alive, see them and hear their voices.
He also noted that what the piecemeal of late Abacha’s loot released so far is doing, is shaving the head of a man, who is dead and Nigerians cannot be deceived by that.
