Nigeria Law
Looted Funds

2011 — 124.· ₦1.7tn· Chapter I · Money

Fuel Subsidy Probe — House Resolution 79

Ad-hoc committee (Lawan Report): ₦1.7tn paid for fuel not delivered, 2009–2011. Some prosecutions, no major conviction at FHC level.

The Farouk Lawan-led House Ad-Hoc Committee report (April 2012) identified ₦1.7tn in subsidy claims paid between 2009 and 2011 that could not be verified as delivered. The report named 72 marketers. Subsequent prosecutions yielded modest convictions of mid-tier executives.

Sources

  • · Lawan Report (HR79/2012)

What it cost — political & economic reality

The political and economic reality

Nigeria in 2012: who was in charge, the cabinet of the day, the GDP, and the crises that defined the period.

President · Fourth Republic

Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan

2010–2015· PDP

National reality

GDP rebasing April 2014 made Nigeria Africa's largest economy. Chibok abduction 14 April 2014 (276 girls). Sovereign Wealth Fund established 2012. Fuel-subsidy protests January 2012. Lost the 2015 election — first incumbent defeated.

Crises of the period

  • #OccupyNigeria fuel-subsidy protests (Jan 2012)
  • Chibok abduction (Apr 2014)
  • Boko Haram caliphate at peak (2014)
  • Oil price crash from mid-2014

GDP (World Bank)

$369 bn (2010) → $546 bn (2014, post-rebasing — largest African economy)

Cabinet (selected portfolios)

  • Finance

    Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala (Coordinating Minister of the Economy)

  • Education

    Ruqayyatu Ahmed Rufa'i; Ibrahim Shekarau

  • Petroleum

    Diezani Alison-Madueke

Source: Federal Gazette 2010–15; NBS GDP rebasing report 2014

Methodology

Tier 1 · primary

Courts. Gazettes. National archives.

Tier 2 · corroborating

OCCRP. HRW. BudgIT. TheCable.

Redline

Wikipedia is never a source.