A presidency source, who confirmed this, said preliminary investigations had enabled the Buhari administration to identify some ex-government officials – mostly former ministers and heads of parastatals — as well as other persons in the public or private sector who helped to conceal their ill-gotten wealth for prosecution.
He added that the list of ex-government officials cuts across mainly the oil and gas sector, among other sectors, but their prosecution would only start in earnest once an attorney general who is “constitutionally recognised as the chief law officer is appointed by the president”.
He declined however to name the ex-government officials or the number of persons who might be prosecuted by the Nigerian government.
The presidency source noted that the dragnet would only focus on those who were once in the executive arm of government while any corrupt cases involving former governors, their aides and members of the legislature would be handled by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and Independent Corrupt Practices Commission (ICPC).
“The reason the attorney general is required for the prosecution of former government officials is because some of the cases will require the assistance of overseas governments to help in tracing where the loot may have been moved, the loot recovery process, and extraditions that can only be handled by the AGF,” he explained
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