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Return all forfeited funds, properties purchased legitimately, Oghara Union tells UK
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…Delta elders reject FG’s bid to spend £4.2m refund by Britain
…Threaten court action
By Emma Amaize & Ikechukwu Nnochiri
Delta Elders Forum, led by South-South leader, Chief Edwin Clark, yesterday, opposed plans by the Federal Government to use the £4.2 million pounds taken from the state and seized by a former governor to complete roads and other infrastructure projects in other parts of the country when federal roads in the state are in dilapidated condition.
They also threatened to go to court should the Federal Government go ahead to appropriate the money.
the loot forfeited by
the associates of James Ibori, former governor of Delta state, is £6.2 million and not £4.2 million.
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On Tuesday, the UK
signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU)with the Nigerian government to return £4.2 million recovered from Ibori and his associates
.
But the union, in a statement by Sunday Agbofodoh, its general secretary, said it had followed the case “diligently” and knows that the forfeited sum was £6.2 million.
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The union said Nigeria “should oppose UK’s hypocrisy” and insist that the entire sum be returned to the country.
It added that Ibori is innocent of the charges against him and that his forfeited assets were not bought with illicit funds.
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The governor of Kogi State, Yahaya Bello, has approved the release of N3.8 billion for capital projects for the first quarter of the year which are expected to cut across all three senatorial districts in the state.
Making this known on Sunday in a statement, the state Commissioner for Finance, Budget and Economic Planning, Asiru Idris, said the implementation of the projects will be closely monitored to ensure their speedy completion to specification.
“Governor Yahaya Bello, has approved N3.8 billion for the construction of projects. These include the construction of Idah/Ajaka, Ejule and Anyigba junction roads which were awarded to Messrs Tech. Engineering Construction Company at the sum of Three Hundred and fifty Million Naira only,” the statement said.