A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos has ordered President Muhammadu Buhari to ensure that recovered funds, stolen from the federal government coffers since the return of democracy in 1999, are fully accounted for by his administration and those of former Presidents Olusegun Obasanjo, Umaru Musa Yar'Adua and Goodluck Jonathan.
Justice Mohammed Idris, who gave the order while ruling on a Freedom of Information (FoI) suit filed by the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP), held that the failure of successive governments to publicly disclose details of the recovered funds 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.
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