The Coalition of Civil Society Organisations CISLAC and other organisations have urged the President of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari Attorney General of the Federation (AGF), and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, and all anti-corruption agencies to immediately start an investigation of everyone and their companies indicted in the Pandora Papers. Information Guide Nigeria
Executive Director, CISLAC, Auwal Rafsanjani, made this call yesterday in Abuja at a news conference
According to Auwal Rafsanjani, Pandora Papers is one of the biggest ever corruption leaks led by ICIJ and over 600 journalists from 117 countries, including journalists from Nigeria’s Premium Times.
He emphasised that the Pandora Papers just like the Panama papers has revealed systems and secrecy jurisdictions that permitted and abetted crime, corruption, and illicit dealings by politicians, billionaires, and high-class individuals.
As reported by THE AUTHORITY, in Rafsanjani’s words: “The Pandora Papers confirm the continuing weaknesses in the Nigerian financial systems and regulatory deficiencies that have been at the root of the annual loss of 18 billion dollars to illicit financial flows out of Nigeria, according to the latest estimate,”
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He noted that the Panama Papers and the Paradise papers exposure led to significant protests across the globe and the fall of governments, prosecution, and dismissal of officials, criminal investigations, and asset confiscations.
Rafsanjani however frowned that this did not have any impact because the government did not do anything about the people exposed for corruption in the two separate papers. jamb results
“The Nigerian Government only managed to constitute a Panama Papers committee, which never triggered any action or any impact.
“The Pandora papers release is coming when Nigeria is reeling under the deleterious impact of COVID-19 and the debt pileup that has continued to stoke serious concerns across political divides and among Nigerians and its development partners.
“It is a meaningful opportunity for the present administration to act decisively against corruption, aggressive tax planning, and other financial practices of politically exposed persons and their advisors and companies that threaten our country’s economic stability and corporate existence,” Rafsanjani said.
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