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Mr. Femi Adesina, the Special
Adviser on Media and Publicity to President Buhari, has confirmed the moves of
President Muhammadu Buhari’s recent statement that his government
will ensure it retrieves looted funds kept in foreign banks.
Speaking in an interview with Saturday Punch,
Adesina said the search for the funds, which are kept in Switzerland, the United Kingdom, United States, France, Germany, British Virgin Islands, Liechtenstein and Luxembourg, will not be limited to these
countries alone.
“The
search will not only cover UK, US, Switzerland, Germany and other known havens
for Nigerian looted funds but will cover everywhere under the sun. Anywhere and
everywhere that the looted funds are, we have an assurance from the United
States of America to assist us to repatriate these funds from anywhere under
the sun,” he said.
According to the report, the Federal Government’s
investigation is meant to identify the individuals involved in corrupt
practices and ascertain the sums of money involved with a view to retrieving
them.
Mr. Adesina said that the Federal Government
plans to engage the services of foreign private investigators that will help in
tracing and find looted funds spread all over the world belonging to the people
of Nigeria.
According to Mr. Adesina, the recent G7 summit in
Germany has tasked President Buhari to search for looted funds that belong to
Nigeria “Everything that needs to be
done to get all those funds repatriated will be done, including engaging
private investigators,” the
Presidential spokesperson said.
He said, “when
the President met with the G7, the promise that the American President gave him
was that Nigeria should just provide all the facts, the figures, the
statistics, including the banks.
“He
promised that if Nigeria could make the information available, then the US will
help in recovering the stolen funds.”
“The
assurance the President has given is that within the next three months, we have
to concentrate on getting those monies back to the government coffers.”
President Buhari had last week lamented that the Goodluck Jonathan administration
left behind virtually empty treasury.
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