The Attorney General of the Federation, Malami, on his part, dismissed the US Senator’s assertions as baseless. He noted that there is no dispute that the monies are Nigeria’s public funds that were unlawfully taken out of Nigeria and unlawfully domiciled in bank accounts within U.S. jurisdiction. He contended that any fair-minded person would score the Commission’s performance under Magu creditably well based on publicly available information about the Commission’s work. Publicly available information and investigations by our reporters as well as our sources seem to support some of the observations of Okpaleke. Some courts have even recommended plea-bargaining to both the commission and defendants facing trial.

Source: The Guardian June 09, 2020 03:45 UTC