Background The approval of the National Anti-Corruption Strategy (NACS) by the Federal Executive Council on 5th July, 2017, evidences the continuous strides of the present administration to combat corruption in Nigeria. The main objective of the NACS is to identify and close existing gaps in the anti-corruption initiatives currently in place. The strategy is an insight into the government’s fight […]
28th August 2018 Benin City, Nigeria…The Africa Network for Environment & Economic Justice, ANEEJ, has hailed the return of 70million pounds seized from an unnamed Nigerian in the UK, and has called on the Nigerian government to put the funds to use on a legacy project under transparent and accountable terms. ANEEJ, executive director, the Rev David Ugolor who made […]
The Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption, PACAC, was constituted in August 2015. It was the very first committee President Buhari set up after he was sworn into office on May 29th 2015. PACAC commenced work on August 10, 2015 with the mandate to, inter alia – promote the reform agenda of the government on the anti-corruption effort, to advise the […]
Background The Africa Network for Environment & Economic Justice (ANEEJ) under DFID grant – Monitoring Asset Recovery in Nigeria through Transparency & Accountability – is issuing a Request for Proposals (RFP) for the design of CSOs monitoring website that will be used for the reporting of how Cash Transfer (CT) of the Abacha loot is evenly distributed among enlisted beneficiaries. […]
CONTEXT The key to unraveling the puzzle of dirty money being used to acquire property in the UK was a Klepto Bus ride undertaken in the UK in 2017. But apart from that there is the Unexplained Wealth Orders, UWO, a UK Policy of putting the burden of proof on the owners of suspiciously acquired wealth. The Africa Network for […]
CONTEXT Over the last week or so, there has been heightened interest amongst Nigerians about the use of the most recently repatriated $322.5 million Abacha loot. The questions raised around the issue include the choice of using the money for the conditional cash transfer programme of the Federal Government, the fairness of the choice of states benefitting from the programme, […]
The Africa Network for Environment and Economic Justice, ANEEJ, has held a CSO Dialogue on Asset Recovery in Abuja, Nigeria, 27th June, 2018. The purpose of the CSO Dialogue on Asset Recovery included raising of awareness of the public on the outcome of GFAR, to reach a common understanding common understanding on how Nigeria can take the commitments made at GFAR forward […]
Compliance Advisor Ombudsman, CAO collaborated with the IFC Country Office in Nigeria and several leading Nigerian civil society organizations (CSOs) to host an outreach event in Lagos and Abuja on May 17, 2018. The purpose of the meeting—which took place in-person and via videoconference from Washington DC—was to raise awareness about CAO’s role as IFC’s independent accountability mechanism, improve understanding […]
Background: At the Global Forum for Asset Recovery, GFAR, event in Washington, DC, December 2-4 2017, there were strong suggestions that for the asset recovery campaign to garner interest and momentum, creating a global platform for CSO work on asset recovery and kleptocracy would be useful, and that holding some form of event for CSOs on Asset Recovery during 2018 […]
BACKGROUND TO MANTRA PROJECT Corruption is a major problem in Nigeria and is largely responsible for widespread poverty and underdevelopment. According to the UN and the AU, around $148 billion is stolen from Africa annually by politically exposed persons, multinational corporations, the business elite and civil servants with complicity of banking and property industries in Europe, North America and elsewhere. […]