Emeka Esogbue

  James Ibori: Who Owns the Loot: Nigeria or Delta State Government? By Emeka Esogbue There have been disputes of ownership in Nigeria between Federal Government and the Delta State Government over the recovered Ibori loot from the United Kingdom and as Chukwudi Enebeli rightly noted in his report of the hotly contested loot: “the news of the eventual repatriation of part of the public funds looted by former Governor of Delta State, Chief James Ibori, while serving as the Governor of Delta State, received overwhelming acceptance and celebration among the Nigerian populace. However, the issue of who is entitled to the repatriated funds has generated heated arguments in several quarters of the polity”. The question is simply, who should keep the recovered Ibori loot? In his additional supply of information over the repatriated loot, Enebeli took his readers through some important background evidence thus: “On the 9th of March 2021, the United Kingdom signed a Memorandum of Un...