Post by The Insight Desk with Ismail Auwal (@theinsights)

Yet beyond the legal questions lies a much larger development question. Reports associated with the proceedings placed the value of the properties initially targeted at approximately ₦213.2 billion. Whether one looks at that figure from a legal, political or economic perspective, it represents an extraordinary amount of public wealth. The real tragedy is not simply that such resources became the subject of judicial proceedings. The tragedy is what such resources could have achieved if fully invested in public development.

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