Nigeria: The Alleged Looters' Lists - Matters Arising

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Not long after he assumed office as Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, gave us some indication of what happened to our public treasuries during the Jonathan administration. The evidence he released, with some glee, was his computation of amounts of money in the charge sheets in court documents allegedly stolen by a number of former public officers and their minions operating under the big, protective umbrella of PDP.

The PDP laughed the minister out of court for the very simple reason that an allegation, however much you might stretch the law, is no proof of theft or perfidy. Apparently, Mohammed did not give up. He wanted to establish the truth in his allegations. He promised to release the names of the men and women he called treasury looters. Last week, he was as good as his word. He first released the list of six men among the alleged treasury looters. Interestingly, the national chairman of PDP, Chief Uche Secondus, led the other five.

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