Ibori loot: Niger Delta group sues FG

A group, Niger Delta Democratic Union, (NDDU), has approached
the Federal High Court, Asaba challenging the federal government
decision to declare itself sole owner of $4.2million seized from
associates of ex- Governor James Ibori by the British
Government.

Facilitator of the group, Dr Akpo Mudiaga Odje, in a statement,
described the decision of the Federal Government to spend the money
as an act of financial terrorism and gluttony.

Part of the statement read, “We have watched with paralyzing
suspicion, the galaxy of controversies and cocktails of cacophony
trailing the returned loot.

“We are however appalled by the Federal Government’s unilateral
decision to sequestrate and/or declare sole ownership over the said
£4.2million by deciding how same is to be put into use and which
said usage is regrettably for developing areas outside Delta State,
which is actually the real owner of these returned funds.

“Indeed, to us and the tendencies we represent, this is an act
of financial terrorism and fiscal gluttony to say the least. The
people of Delta State lucidly possess the undisputable allodial
title over these funds, and as such, should be the exclusive
beneficiaries of same.

“In that spirit of proclivity for justice and in concord with
even the scanty fiscal federal implants in the 1999 Constitution,
we have through the labyrinth and groundswell of unanimity decided
to challenge the centrifugal pasturing of the Federal Government on
this vexed issue, as adumbrated by the Attorney General of the
Federation .

“Accordingly ,an action has been filed at the Federal High
Court, Asaba to challenge this unprovoked onslaught and
unrestrained belligerence against our Constitution and the People
of Delta State.”

A group, Niger Delta Democratic Union, (NDDU), has approached
the Federal High Court, Asaba challenging the federal government
decision to declare itself sole owner of $4.2million seized from
associates of ex- Governor James Ibori by the British
Government.

Facilitator of the group, Dr Akpo Mudiaga Odje, in a statement,
described the decision of the Federal Government to spend the money
as an act of financial terrorism and gluttony.

Part of the statement read, “We have watched with paralyzing
suspicion, the galaxy of controversies and cocktails of cacophony
trailing the returned loot.

“We are however appalled by the Federal Government’s unilateral
decision to sequestrate and/or declare sole ownership over the said
£4.2million by deciding how same is to be put into use and which
said usage is regrettably for developing areas outside Delta State,
which is actually the real owner of these returned funds.

“Indeed, to us and the tendencies we represent, this is an act
of financial terrorism and fiscal gluttony to say the least. The
people of Delta State lucidly possess the undisputable allodial
title over these funds, and as such, should be the exclusive
beneficiaries of same.

“In that spirit of proclivity for justice and in concord with
even the scanty fiscal federal implants in the 1999 Constitution,
we have through the labyrinth and groundswell of unanimity decided
to challenge the centrifugal pasturing of the Federal Government on
this vexed issue, as adumbrated by the Attorney General of the
Federation .

“Accordingly ,an action has been filed at the Federal High
Court, Asaba to challenge this unprovoked onslaught and
unrestrained belligerence against our Constitution and the People
of Delta State.”