The Attorney General
of the Federation, Abubakar Malami, on Thursday, dismissed the claim by a
US-based Nigerian lawyer, Godson Nnaka, who said he was entitled to
40 percent
of the $550m Abacha loot the US government is about to return to Nigeria.
In a 44-page
document, Malami said the Nigerian government will not pay the amount Nnaka is
asking for because he is not qualified to practise law in the Maryland area
where the case is taking place.
The document also said the US based lawyer did
not recover any money for the country 14 years after the former Attorney
General of the Federation, Olujimi, gave him a provisional letter to help
locate and recover the loot.
Malami described Nnaka as a man trying to reap
from where he did not sow.
According to the document, the Maryland court
dismissed Nnaka’s claim to had represented Nigeria because the temporary letter
Olujimi gave to him was not revalidated by Mohammed Adoke when the forfeiture
case resumed in 2013.
However, the US based lawyer has appealed
against the position, threatening to sue
the AGF over comments that he was not
qualified to represent Nigeria and was not entitled to 40 percent of the loot
in question.
source: Daily Post
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