A former Chairman of the Special Investigation Panel for the Recovery of Public Property, Okoi Obono-Obla, has alleged that the loot recovered by his panel under former President Muhammadu Buhari was returned to the looters.
Obono-Obla, who was appointed a presidential aide by Buhari, made the allegation while speaking on the Mic On Podcast. He stated that the Buhari administration failed to fight corruption, supposedly the bedrock of people’s trust in him.
SPIP was an independent investigative panel set up by Buhari to recover stolen property and assets belonging to the country.
According to Obono-Obla, his efforts to bring many looters to justice in the country were frustrated by officials in the same administration, including former Minister of Justice and Attorney General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami, whom he (Obono-Obla) described as an ‘authoritarian’.
“Some of the things I recovered were returned to the looters. For instance, there was this case of…
Source: Linda Ikeji
