Nigeria: Court Orders Obasanjo, Yar'Adua, Jonathan Govts to Account for Recovered Loots

The Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, in a landmark judgment, has 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."

The court then ordered 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."

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