…says case not concluded

By Tare Youdeowei

Former Delta State governor, Chief James Ibori, has expressed shock at a statement, credited to the Minister of Justice and Attorney-General of the Federation, Mr. Abubakar Malami, SAN, that about 6.9 million British Pounds Sterling was being expected as Ibori loot.

A statement by Mr. Tony Eluemunor, his Media Assistant, said “There is no Ibori loot anywhere in the world. Such money, whether in British pounds, American dollars or the Nigerian naira just does not exist. This is because the Ibori London trial is not yet over. It is an incontrovertible fact that the confiscation hearing has not started at all, and remains months away into the future.

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“This makes it disappointing that a high official of state such as the Attorney-General may have been misled into believing that an Ibori loot not only exists anywhere, but he even put a figure (6.9 million pounds) to it.

“With all due respect to the Minister and the President Muhammadu Buhari administration, it is curious that such a misleading statement could have come less than a week that dozens of well-respected foreign media organisations, including the British Broadcasting Corporation, BBC, The Times of London, The Guardian of London, and a host of Nigerian news outlets reported that the case against Ibori and his associates have become shaky as some operatives of the London Metropolitan Police have been accused of bribery and corruption in the course of their investigations. Thus, at the January 21, 2016 hearing, the prosecution was forced to withdraw its case against one of Ibori’s counsel, Mr. Bradesh Gohil.

“It had charged Gohil of leaking fabricated documents to media organisations and members of (British) Parliament, but Gohil turned the case against the Police, accusing them of misleading the court with tainted evidence from corrupt operatives and of withholding key documents which could have proved police corruption.”

Eluemunor said that he assumed that the Minister might have been misquoted and so did not issue a rebuttal immediately, but it was only when he failed to retract the statement after 24 hours that he decided to give Nigerians (including the Minister) the true perspective of the Ibori London trial and state categorically that the so called “Ibori Loot” Mr. Abubakar Malami saw as a “low hanging fruit ripe for plucking” must have been a terrible mirage.

“This has done nothing though to affect in any way, the high regard Chief Ibori and his Media Office have for President Buhari, his administration and ministers, including the Justice Minister, Mr. Malami. Chief Ibori wishes them well in their stated bid to leave a better Nigeria than they found it.”


http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/01/ibori-to-justice-minister-no-ibori-loot-anywhere/

make dem shift + delete joor. see thief dey explain the amount wey he thief...lobbish

Hmmmm..

Wailing buffoons o ya come and buttlick james ibori. I think british prison is a funfare which is why a convicted thief could muster so much guts correcting figures. If he were to have served his term in kuje thereafter spent another 6months for treatment, he wouldn't have have this luxury.
The truth has spoken!

Eyah, I miss sir Ibori sha..
I guess he has served his terms and will soon be free.

So in essence some of these acclaimed Abacha loots been recovered aren't true. I guessed as much,because the recovery seems endless...May God help this country

The impression one is getting is that lbori was wrongfully sentenced and jailed by the British judiciary!

everyone claims not to have stolen, yet theres bad roads, delapitated health care system etc.

If this man does not shut up...I see EFCC reopening his case in Nigeria very soon.

Oya to you malami. I am interested in the message and not the messenger because I am not a zombie like some people that doent reason at all cos they has no brain.

So Ibori decided to plead guilty to money laundering offences in UK he did not commit in order to go on 13 years vacation in jail.

lol at no Ibori loot existing anywhere in the world, such tales can only sell with their confirmed MUMU

This people must think Nigerians are fools ooo, so you went to prison for 13 just for the fun of it without committing any offense Abegiii park well and return the looted yams to the barn

James Ibori? Mscheeeww! I even think say na better person

ok

Liar Liar pants on fire

We believe you sir. Can't wait for your release

Ok

Hmmmmm

Ibori james if only u were in in kuje prison

covered his tracks carefully..

Joker!

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Omo UK prison must really full of leisure o.....if na kirikiri u dey wey u dey eat watery beans, wey mosquitoe and TB don condemn your life, you go get mouth to dey talk this trash?

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Wailing buffoons o ya come and buttlick james ibori. I think british prison is a funfare which is why a convicted thief could muster so much guts correcting figures. If he were to have served his term in kuje thereafter spent another 6months for treatment, he wouldn't have have this luxury.
The truth has spoken!

Only in Nigeria you could here people who are supposed to be reputable sing praises for convicts who are even in jail. It is a very nasty recklessness, because children and youths are erroneously learning.

as in?