Oh yah!..Luxurious mansions owned by some Nigerians, including those
standing trial for corruption, in the United Kingdom, have been exposed.
President Muhammadu Buhari and Ibrahim Magu, chairman of the Economic
and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), are billed to depart Nigeria on
Tuesday for an anti-graft summit in London.
In a report entitled: ‘Palaces of Corruption’, The Mail on Sunday,
published pictures and locations of houses belonging to two late former
governors, who faced graft charges in their lifetime.
They are Diepreye Alamieyeseigha, who governed Bayelsa state between
1999 and 2005, and Abubakar Audu, two-term governor of Kogi state, who
was seeking a return to the government house at the time of his
death.Both men died in 2015.
The property of James Ibori, former Delta state governor, who is
currently serving a jail term, was also included in the report, in
addition to that of Jimoh Ibrahim, lawyer and billionaire businessman.
Nigerians were not the only ones listed in the report.
The children of Muammar Gaddafi, Libyan dictator; Omar Bongo, late
president of Gabon; Ilham Aliyev, Azerbaijan’s leader; and Kurmanbek
Bakiyev, Kyrgyzstan president, were also included.
“Properties bought with dirty money often sit empty for long periods.
Those living nearby have no idea who their neighbours are, undermining
any sense of community. Most importantly, those properties are taken off
the market, further squeezing housing supply,” the report read.
Nigerians are known to have properties in choice locations across the world.
Recently, Süddeutsche Zeitung, a German newspaper, obtained
documents, #Panama Papers, that exposed how over 100 Nigerians stashed
billions in tax havens.
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