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Lawmaker suggests settling ASUU with recovered $23 Million Abacha Loot

Adamu Abubakar
By Adamu Abubakar
Published: August 25, 2022
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A member of the House of Representatives Dachung Musa Bagos has suggested that part of the recently returned $23m Abacha loot should be used to settle the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU).

Okay.ng recalls that the Nigerian Government reached an agreement with the US Government over the return of $23 million dollars supposedly looted by General Sani Abacha.

Abacha was Head of State from 17th November 1993 until his death on 8th June 1998.

Mr Dachung Musa Bagos, the lawmaker representing Jos South/Jos East is wondering why the recent Abacha should not be used to settle ASUU.

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“We have pressing needs. Like now, ASUU has been on strike and the government is trying to settle those issues,” he said during an interview on Channels Television’s Politics Today on Wednesday.

“As a representative of the people, if I have to argue where those funds should be channeled to on the floor, I will say, ‘Why can’t you channel this fund to ASUU so that most of the youths that are at home would go back to school?’ But some of the areas we feel that the executive is channeling those funds are not the immediate needs of Nigerians.”

The lawmaker also accused the Federal Government of not carrying the National Assembly along in the disbursement of recovered loots.

“This is my third year in the National Assembly, we have never discussed any of the recovered loots. We just sit down and we hear that the executive recovered loots and allot the same to projects that they so desire,” Bagos explained.

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He said it appears the Federal Government is not alloting these recovered funds to the right areas, saying if there are agreements entered before such monies are repatriated, the National Assembly should ratify such.

“We believe that when we discuss these issues at the National Assembly, we appropriate those funds according to the needs of Nigeria, it is going to go a long way; not just the executive looking at it and alloting it (the fund) to what they feel it should be,” he added. “The constitution has given us that right.”

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