Nigeria: NGO Urges Govt to Seize Sheriff's Assets

4 September 2014

A call has gone to the federal government to immediately confiscate all assets belonging to former Borno State Governor, Senator Ali Modu Sheriff, in order to stop him from influencing his proposed prosecution by the International Criminal Court (ICC) over his alleged involvement in financing the outlawed Boko Haram insurgents.

Reacting to recent allegation by an Australia hostage negotiator, Dr. Stephen Davis, that the former governor and former Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Azubuike Ihejirika, are the major backers of the terrorist group, a non-governmental organisation (NGO) in Borno State, Borno Coalition for Good Governance, in a press statement yesterday, which said the recent revelation was no surprise to the people of the state, noted that "confiscating all the assets belonging to Sheriff in Nigeria, Dubai, China, India and Chad to avoid interfering with the investigations of the ICC through financial inducement," should be the first step.

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