{"id":20164,"date":"2020-06-10T13:13:03","date_gmt":"2020-06-10T13:13:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?p=20164"},"modified":"2020-06-10T13:13:12","modified_gmt":"2020-06-10T13:13:12","slug":"abachas-son-says-their-father-kept-looted-funds-abroad-for-a-reason","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?p=20164","title":{"rendered":"Abacha\u2019s son says their father kept looted funds abroad for a reason"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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A son of late General Sani Abacha<\/a>, Sadiq has said that funds traced to his father and kept outside the country were done for a reason.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sadiq stated this in an interview with the BBC Hausa Service on Wednesday, but failed to state what those reasons were.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He also said that, of all their father\u2019s friends they only relate well with family members of a former military leader, Ibrahim Babangida.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He said they still had some relationship with the family of President Muhammadu Buhari.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Abacha, a former Nigerian military leader had continued to make headlines for bad reasons 22 years after his death, as billions of naira in foreign currency allegedly looted by him were continuously being discovered and recovered by succeeding governments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His son, Sadiq shared how Abacha family members feel about discoveries and recoveries of their father\u2019s loot as well as their relationship with Nigerians especially, the late father\u2019s friends.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On how Abacha family members are being treated, Sadiq claimed that despite late President Musa Yar\u2019Adua lifting the travel ban placed on thier family, that he and other family members were still being harassed whenever they travel in and out of the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201dWhen Yayale Ahmed was Secretary to the Government of the Federation, he helped us and the travel ban on our family was lifted.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201dBut up till date, I\u2019m always interrogated at the airports anytime I\u2019m travelling. They always say our names are still in the black book.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201dWe\u2019ve been to the security agency and they have issued us with a clearance paper. That our names have been removed from the black book.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201dBut nothing has changed. I\u2019m always harassed whenever I\u2019m going out or coming into the country. I don\u2019t know where to go and be listened to. It should\u2019ve been a security agency, but I was there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201dNothing has changed. Even recently, before this lockdown, I was interrogated when I returned from Dubai,\u201d Sadiq said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Noting that stories of reports of hundreds of millions allegedly looted by their father disturbed them, he said:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe hear the report just as others used to hear. But there are reasons why the money was kept\u2026 Definitely, I\u2019m not happy.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On those the family relate well with, Sadiq said, \u201cOur present relationship with some of our late father\u2019s friends is surprising. We exchange pleasantries with the family of General Babangida. We are in good terms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt is only with members of the Babangida family that whenever we meet, we associate and share stories.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201dWe also relate well with family members of President Muhammadu Buhari<\/a>. But it\u2019s only with the Babangida\u2019s that we recall the past.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A son of late General Sani Abacha, Sadiq has said that funds traced to his father and kept outside the country were done for a reason. Sadiq stated this in an interview with the BBC Hausa Service on Wednesday, but failed to state what those reasons were. He also said that, of all their father\u2019s friends […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[42,10],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\nAbacha\u2019s son says their father kept looted funds abroad for a reason » WatchDog Plus Media<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?p=20164\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Odofin\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?p=20164#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Corruption\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?cat=42\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":3,\"name\":\"Abacha\u2019s son says their father kept looted funds abroad for a reason\"}]}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Abacha\u2019s son says their father kept looted funds abroad for a reason » WatchDog Plus Media","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?p=20164","author":"Odofin","schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?p=20164#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Corruption","item":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?cat=42"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Abacha\u2019s son says their father kept looted funds abroad for a reason"}]}]}},"rttpg_featured_image_url":null,"rttpg_author":{"display_name":"Odofin","author_link":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?author=2"},"rttpg_comment":0,"rttpg_category":"<a href=\"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?cat=42\" rel=\"category\">Corruption<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?cat=10\" rel=\"category\">Politics<\/a>","rttpg_excerpt":"A son of late General Sani Abacha, Sadiq has said that funds traced to his father and kept outside the country were done for a reason. Sadiq stated this in an interview with the BBC Hausa Service on Wednesday, but failed to state what those reasons were. He also said that, of all their father\u2019s friends…","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20164"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20164"}],"version-history":[{"count":-4,"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20164\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}