The Federal Government has agreed to conform with the ruling of a Lagos High Court to publish the names of looters.
According to the Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, the government will disclose the identities of treasury looters but only at the appropriate time and “perhaps intermittently,”
The court ordered the government to “immediately release to Nigerians information about the names of high ranking public officials from whom public funds were recovered and the circumstances under which funds were recovered as well as the exact amount of funds recovered from each public official.”
The ruling follows a suit by the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) against the government.
Justice Hadiza Shagari had held that “the Federal Government has a legally binding obligations to tell Nigerians the names of all suspected looters of the public treasury past and present.”
