nigeria: Morality And the Abacha Billions

A few months after the mysterious death in June 1998 of General Sani Abacha, his finance minister, Chief Anthony Ani, then no longer a minister, called a press conference in Lagos during which he said that his boss had repeatedly ignored his advice against the withdrawal of huge sums of money in local and foreign currency from the Central Bank of Nigeria, by Abacha's National Security Adviser, Alhaji Ismaila Gwarzo. All told, said Ani, Gwarzo had, among other things, withdrawn over 1.3 billion dollars over a period of nearly two years before Abacha's death.