The World Bank has asked to be given
more time to produce the details of how the loot recovered from Nigerian
late military dictator, Gen. Sani Abacha, was spent.
A rights advocacy group, Socio-Economic
Rights and Accountability Project, had last year written to the World
Bank, seeking to know how much of the Abacha loot was recovered and to
what use it was put.
In response to the request, the World
Bank had supplied SERAP with a 700-page document stating the projects
executed in the country with the loot recovered from Abacha.
But not satisfied, SERAP had appealed
for more information, contending that “important portions of the
information requested on how Abacha loot was spent” were missing from
the document supplied to it by the World Bank.
The Executive Director of SERAP,
Adetokunbo Mumuni, said in a statement on Tuesday that the organisation
had received a letter dated August 8, 2016 from the World Bank,
requesting to be given more time to supply the additional information.
Mumuni said it was the second time the
World Bank would be asking for additional time to supply the details of
the Abacha loot spending.
According to him, parts of the
additional information being sought by SERAP was the evidence of the 23
projects, which the World Bank said were executed with Abacha loot.
The organisation also sought to know
“what became of two abandoned projects; evidence and location of the
eight health centres built with the recovered Abacha loot reviewed by
the World Bank; and evidence and location of the 18 power projects
confirmed by the World Bank.”
The statement added, “Other aspects of
the spending of Abacha loot the bank referred to its Archives Unit for
processing for public access are information on how the $50m Abacha loot
received before 2005 kept in the special account was spent; evidence
and location of schools which benefited from the Universal Basic
Education programme in the amount of N24.25bn; and evidence and location
of the 13 road projects completed with the recovered Abacha loot,
including the names of the three of the largest road and bridge projects
in each geo-political zone.”
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