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Fair Play Africa: Nigeria's Supreme Court Orders Mohammed Abacha's T...

Fair Play Africa: Nigeria's Supreme Court Orders Mohammed Abacha's T... : Nnamdi Felix / Abuja Nigeria’s Supreme court in a unanimous decision Friday morning ordered Mohammed Abacha, son of late former Head of...

Nigeria's Supreme Court Orders Mohammed Abacha's Trial For Theft

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Nnamdi Felix / Abuja Nigeria’s Supreme court in a unanimous decision Friday morning ordered Mohammed Abacha, son of late former Head of state, General Sani Abacha, to return to an Abuja High Court and face his trial on a 123 count criminal charge brought against him by the Federal Government of Nigeria wherein he was alleged to be in possession of stolen properties belonging to the Federal Government. The theft was allegedly committed by the late former dictator who stole when he ruled Nigeria. Mohammed had attempted to foil his trial but was unsuccessful at the trial court before he proceeded to the Court of Appeal where he lost. Then he approached the Supreme Court. He argued that the immunity enjoyed by his father while in office extended to him and that having forfeited some of the family’s properties, including cash sum of Two Hundred and Fifty million Naira, confiscated by the government, he should be exempted from prosecution in line with the he provisi...