The ongoing Abacha’s son case is a good example of the sad story of how Nigeria has been hemorrhaged mis-treated over the year. Some people got themselves into public offices in Nigeria, where they can loot as much of the nation’s treasury until they are stinking with money they don’t know what to do with; meanwhile, the Survival Advocates in the Niger Delta (the source of the money) are labeled militants and terrorists, some even killed; Nigerian educational institutions have no books, libraries, food or lecture rooms; many students are struggling to pay various fees and charges in the public and private schools; Nigerian roads are not maintained; Nigeria has no airline; there is no town, city or village in Nigeria with dependable pipe-borne water, not to talk of the elusive regular electricity.
This is not how to lead a society; even if people don’t believe in God, they should have moral standards as leaders to set the pace for other people in the society. With all these depressing examples, everybody is eying the nation’s treasuries, the opportunity to loot, and apparently there is nobody thinking about NIGERIA! It is really sad! JUI (just sad about with Nigerian leaders have done to Nigeria!)
 
 
  
http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/swiss_news/Court_rules_Abacha_hearing_can_continue.html?cid=8861026
Court rules Abacha hearing can continue
A Geneva court has ruled that a hearing concerning the son of former Nigerian dictator Sani Abacha can continue without his presence.
Abacha’s Swiss lawyers had argued that since Abba Abacha had not been able to get a visa to enter Switzerland in time, the trial should be adjourned.
 
The younger Abacha is appealing against a 2009 guilty verdict on charges of belonging to a criminal organisation and the court seizure of $350 million (SFr385 million) linked to his father, who died in 1998.

The Geneva Police Court said on Tuesday that the hearing could go ahead without Abacha and some of the witnesses who have decided not to attend.

Abacha, 41, who is accused of plundering his country’s accounts while his father was in power in the 1990s, is ready to come and explain himself, lawyer Pierre de Preux said on Monday, the opening day of the trial.

Lawyer David Bitton, who is representing Nigeria, on the same day described the defence’s tactics as crass. 

Some non-governmental organisations have already raised concerns that the trial might be a failure, but say the fact that it is taking place is a big step forward.


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