Femi Falana, a human rights lawyer and Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), has accused former National Security Adviser, Sambo Dasuki, and ex finance minister, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala of diverting funds recovered from Abacha’s loot According to Punch, Falana stated this in his petition to the International Criminal Court (ICC), Prosecutor, Fatou Bensouda. Falana in his petition, asked the court to investigate the alleged $2.1b arms purchase scandal. Punch reports that he also alleged that “the sum of $322m and £5.5m from the money stolen and stashed abroad by the late Gen. Sani Abacha, allegedly transferred to Dasuki by a former Finance Minister, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo- Iweala, to prosecute the war on terror, had been illegally diverted.” The sum of $322m and £5.5m, going by the rate of N198 to a dollar and N214.70 to a Euro, amounts to N7,547,557,636. The human rights lawyer also said the action of the former National Security adviser, and his accomplices, amount to crimes against humanity.

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