Court Won’t Unfreeze Foreign Accounts Belonging To Abacha
February 8, 2020
9:44 am
The Supreme Court, yesterday, declined a request by family members of the late Head of state, General Sani Abacha to unfreeze accounts belonging to him and other members of the family in foreign countries.
The accounts, which are in banks in the United Kingdom, Switzerland, Jersey, Liechenstein and Luxembourg, were frozen following mutual judicial assistance agreements entered with the countries by the Nigerian government during the administration of the then President, Olusegun Obasanjo, in 1999.
Dissatisfied with the government’s action, the Abacha’s family dragged the federal government to court to reverse the said directive.
Unfortunately their request both at the …
