BREAKING: Supreme Court dismisses Abacha family’s bid to access ex-dictator’s foreign accounts

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The Supreme Court on Friday dismissed an appeal by the family of the late Head of State, General Sani Abacha, who had prayed for an order unfreezing some bank accounts of the late dictator and other m

embers of the family held in the United Kingdom, Switzerland, Jersey, Liechenstein and Luxembourg.reports that the accounts were frozen in the countries following mutual judicial assistance agreements entered with the countries by the Nigerian government during the administration of the then President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, in 1999.

Delivering judgement in the appeal filed by a son of the late dictator, Mohammed Abacha, a five-man panel of the apex court led by Justice Olukayode Ariwoola, unanimously held that the suit, which was first initiated before the Federal High Court in Kano in January 2004, had become statute-barred.

 

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Why do dey want to access his foreign accounts? Let d foreign govts keep repatriation d stolen funds biko

Why the fuss about who accesses it. It does not make any difference whether or not the family have access to it. Even if they do not, it will still be a personal property which will not profit an ordinary Nigerian. Why spend our tax in pursuit of a matter that will not make us.

They have chest sha! People that should just stay somewhere, and all Nigerians should be slapping them one by one.

They want to stop this ancestor from giving us money when we are broke evil children.

Xmoojo They still want to go steal the one he left stashed away. The family is really unfortunate.

Those Nigerians looters are truly evil.

Imagine.

Shameless family

Just imagine if Abacha was stil alive, he wud be political godfather of many politicians that are collecting his loots now. Bcos he is dead, the government is robbing his loots🤣. IBB, Obasanjo, Abdusalami all loot. Especially IBB, the chief thief of the all. Who’s daring IBB?

Shameless family... It's time people bare the sins of their father..

They need to be arrested.

Every successive governments of Nigeria is shining with late General Sani Abacha, is Abach the only president of Nigeria that loots? or is it because he is dead? Abacha loot is to divert attention.

He is not looter

God will punish all Abacha family members !!! They are mad

are they broke ni?

Eriwe agwuagwu

Abacha never stole by saint pmb

What a bold step by the family of the highest looter in the history of Nigeria to access Hid loots.

We will never get the one Babangida, Gowon and the rest stole because they are still alive

🤣

Yet his wife was hosted to a tour of aso villa by the president's wife recently

Abach is not looted

You see this life a man will take nothing to the grave, yet humans don't learn animals like lion kill only when they are hungry and eat what they kill but our leaders prefer to steal what they don't nèed now is Abacha tomorrow it maybe B.

This man will not rest in peace 4 all d money he stole in his time. Upon all they've retrieved from their family, they still have other foreign bank accounts 2 withdraw from that Supreme Court have no stop them. Na wa o! This man use net pack our money? Sea never dry na im be ds

They just want to start where their father stopped.

Awon ole

Hmmm

Money good oo omg

So this family are so courageous enough to go to the Supreme Court for such a matter as this, omo one Nigeria na scam.

😂😂😂😂. They (Family) want to hijack Federal Government source of income

They even have the mind to go to court.... wetin I nor go see for my country... Lol 🤤

Nowadays d media is not a reflection of reality but fabrication of lies, Pls if you don't have what to tweet reserve your unnecessary tweeting😩 Gen. Abacha Was never a looter but a hero to Nigerians... Legendary leader Gen. Abacha g_sparking

Tenkiu supreme Court his family wants to block our next year withdrawal alert ni jare

Abacha still has foreign accounts intact after all the huge funds recovered Wow...

Are they broke?

It's always about getting a slice of the pie

How daring can this thieving family be? Shame seems to have fled from their vicinity! The laws of NIGERIA forbids any public servant from operating a foreign account & Abacha had no other job but soldering all his life. How did he come about foreign accounts! He’s lucky he’s dead

Family wey suppose dey exile by now

This family don't rate us at all........and they also have no shame.....mtchew!!!

They want to block the very consistent international credit alerts for Nigeria?

Who did they grant access then?

I wonder why Una dey attack abacha family. This money will still be shared by buhari and his goons.

🤔🤔

They want to chop too.....Allow them small nah....🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂 They too are surprised

In a normal country, should such happened. Family contesting stolen state money and some Nigerians are hailing them shame big time

Upon all the money that were looted in Nigeria, it's ONLY Abacha's own that was returned. Imagine if other loots were seize and returned, Nigeria would be doing Federal allocations from the loots as they return them.

Abacha still get family for 🇳🇬?

This same family once said they can't be as poor as Dangote. They meant what they said then.

This people no get shame all

You can imagine the guts... I don't blame them... I blame the system that allows this kind of BS

ehigymetor Lol. Govt wants that money to redistribute to the nameless in their ranks.

If the courts granted your prayer witgbthe money your father stole you could probable biy Nigerian because your father has been rewarding Nigerian since 1998. So take heart and look at the big picture Your father is giving govt bailout without repayment pluse at zero interest .

Mulla. It's a bad driver. Recklessness just takes over.

*Shocked* I thought Buhari said Abacha never Stole..

While calling General Sani Abacha as dictator? Grown up!

Just because this man is dead the government are taking advantage,...what about Ibrahim babangida,albdusalem,obasanjo,atiku etc?do this guys did not steal abi?this one na 419 country

Abacha's family*

Foreign accounts from his companies. They are fools thinking their father left them fortune, that's our money.

This thieving Abacha's family are wonderfully amazing

Hahahaha

I thought as much so it is true. So we won't hear abacha loot again. They ve finally breached the contract with Abachas family. Only God knows what name they will initiate now...... We are watching

Owo Daddy Nigeria ma ni yen

Dis man na real MVP.

They even have the gut...😞 So irrational. I believe more to come.

The nerve

yemi_rain ObaCanada Abacha family get mind ooo..

Abacha's family has no shame at all. That family is a certified thief.

Abacha never stole

Ole ma la won people yi sha

Just imagine how things have degenerated. People that should hide their faces in shame about their father stealing the country blind they are still fighting to access account. As what now? As the money their daddy worked for or what?

Only Yesterday Al Mustapha was saying Abacha did not steal.

So they still even have the Liver

From the inept and incompetent GMB, he was part of that government, GMB is a big theif

These people get mind sha

It's the familys money.... the court should allowed them access because all the looted money this country has recovered from Abacha where are they? Where did the recovered money go to?

What a shameless family!

I read somewhere that Major Al-Mustapha said Abacha did not steal&people were suprised. Al-Mustapha loyality to Abacha was one of a kind,so i never expected anything less to be said by him. Two people saw Abacha dieing in his bedroom His Personal physician Dr Hamman &Al-Mustapha

Hahahaha they wan do wetin with it

Inside life. Na wao oh.

Buhari said Abacha didn't steal from Nigeria OBJ moved to freeze the accounts, same Buhari that was with Abacha during the looting is now the president which was from oil that Buhari was PTF chairman then. Nigeria is doomed

And SERAPNigeria who were the Abacha family lawyers when this case was “first initiated before the Federal High Court in Kano in January 2004”

Good news

Foolish people, you want to check the one that has money so you will sweep it out, you guys feel Nigeria is tired of getting the looted funds for them to be loot again abi

Eh so they get the guts to go to court to request for looted refunds

So his family event have the courage to go to Court and asked for that After all that their father did to us in this country Come where are the EFCC that go about harassing Jonathan wife? It's because Abacha is from north?

Shame no dey catch this family neh,

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