It’s been 30 days since a high court in Abuja ordered President Bola Tinubu’s government to disclose how $5 billion in stolen funds recovered from former head of state Sani Abacha was used, and the order has not been heeded.

Previous presidents Olusegun Obasanjo, Umaru Musa Yar’Adua, Goodluck Jonathan and Muhammadu Buhari had overseen the recovery of billions of dollars looted by Abacha in the 1990s.

Buhari’s federal government said it would use some of the recovered Abacha loot for infrastructure projects, but Nigerians heard no more about the money.

The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP), a human rights non-profit group, asked the Federal High Court, Abuja, to force the government to account for Abacha’s loot mostly returned to Nigeria by Britain, the United States and Switzerland.

READ ALSO: FUL TEXT: Tinubu Dresses Nigerians Over Economic Hardship

“It is now 30 DAYS since the Court ordered the Tinubu administration to publish spending details of $5 billion recovered Abacha loot by the governments of Obasanjo, Yar’Adua, Jonathan and Buhari. The administration has neither acknowledged nor implemented the judgment,” SERAP tweeted on Tuesday.

SERAP quoted the high court judgement in the first week of July.

“Justice James Kolawole Omotosho granted the following orders of mandamus against the Nigerian government:

“AN ORDER OF MANDAMUS is hereby made directing and compelling the Federal Government [through the Ministry of Finance and the office of the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice to provide and disclose the following information to SERAP: [a] Exact amount of money stolen by General Sani Abacha from Nigeria, and the total amount of Abacha loot recovered and all agreements signed on same since the return of democracy in 1999 till date [b] Details of the projects executed with the recovered funds, locations of any such projects and the names of companies and contractors that carried or carrying out the projects [c] Details of specific roles played by the World Bank and other partners in the execution of any projects funded with Abacha loot since 1999.

READ ALSO: NLC Tells Tinubu to Reverse Anti-People Policies

“AN ORDER OF MANDAMUS is hereby made directing and compelling the Federal Government to: [a] Refer any allegations of corruption involving the execution of projects with Abacha loot to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) for investigation [b] Ensure that anyone involved in alleged corruption in projects executed with Abacha loot is brought to justice if there is relevant and sufficient admissible evidence.”

Abacha was Nigeria’s military head of state from 1993 until his death in 1998. Nigeria was Africa’s top petroleum exporter and was on economic ascendancy at the time.

Transparency International estimated that Abacha siphoned up to $5 billion of public money.