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We found out like others that US wiretapped Jonathan’s officials –Onyeama

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Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama, Wednesday disclosed that President Muhammadu Buhari’s government did not know that the United States was listening in on telephone conversations of some officials of the Jonathan administration in order to monitor high-level “suspicious” transactions made in the country.

Recall that in July, a compromising telephone conversation between former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Alison-Madueke, and her business associates, Kola Aluko and Jide Omokore, was leaked.

In the recording, Alison-Madueke was heard cautioning Aluko over his extravagance, warning that he was attracting scrutiny. Reports of the content had emerged as part of developments in the ongoing legal proceedings in the United States.

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Speaking with state house correspondents in Abuja on Wednesday, Onyeama revealed that the government was making effort to recover stolen funds hidden abroad.

He said, “On the issue of how much is stolen from the country, it’s an ongoing thing, we have been discovering all the time because you see the sophistication that there is today in hiding money around the world is amazing, even western countries themselves have a lot of problems and it takes them a lot of time and they discovered about the Panama papers, nobody knew about all those funds illegally stashed until you suddenly have the revelations under the Panama papers. So it’s really an ongoing thing and then new ones coming up all the time.

“As you saw recently we never knew about the US eavesdropping on some telephone conversations of members of the previous government and private sectors talking about investments that were made in the United States, it just suddenly came out like that, so it’s an ongoing thing”.

 

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  1. Anita Kingsley

    September 28, 2017 at 9:19 am

    This should not be tolerated, taping telephone calls made in Nigeria from US is an offense, this is Nigerian government, not American government. They need to stay away from our government, we can handle things ourselves

  2. Animashaun Ayodeji

    September 28, 2017 at 9:22 am

    I don’t think the US government deserve an applause for doing such, in fact, the Nigerian government should fight them for secretly tapping into conversations that’s not in their country. Nigerian government should be the one to tap into its officials office, not America. How will they feel if Nigeria do that to them?

    • Abeni Adebisi

      September 28, 2017 at 9:25 am

      They did it for good reason, if they didn’t tap into conversations, no one would know anything about the leaked telephone conversation between Diezani Alison-Madueke, and her business associates, Kola Aluko and Jide Omokore. Don’t look at the negative effects, the positive effects are more than the negatives.

      • Animashaun Ayodeji

        September 28, 2017 at 9:27 am

        That’s rubbish! Did they get authorization from the Nigerian government? No! So they have no good intention at all

  3. yanju omotodun

    September 28, 2017 at 9:47 am

    Sincerely, the US is becoming unbecoming in intruding into people’s privacy just because they are the super power, UN has to curb them from such.

    • Balarabe musa

      September 29, 2017 at 3:16 am

      Who is the UN if not the US, just forget it

      • seyi jelili

        September 29, 2017 at 6:31 am

        US weild enormous power in the world but their power will be curtailed soon, shey North Korea dey show dem pepper for now

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