Politics
Recovery of looted funds: We’re getting impatient, Buhari tells envoy
President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday in Abuja lamented that it is taking too long to recover the country’s looted funds that have stashed away in overseas countries.
He told Executive Secretary of United Nations Office for Drugs and Crime (UNODC) Mr Yury Fedotov, that the process of recovering the stolen assets had “become tedious’’ to the consternation of many Nigerians.
A statement by Garba Shehu, Senior Sepcial Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, quoted the president as saying, “We are looking for more cooperation from the EU, United States, other countries and international institutions to recover the nation’s stolen assets, particularly proceeds from the stolen crude oil.
“It is taking very long and Nigerians are becoming impatient,” the President said.
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While urging UNODC to facilitate the faster recovery of Nigeria’s stolen wealth stashed abroad, the president told Mr. Fedotov that his government has worked very hard in the past 11 months to reverse the very negative global perception of Nigeria on corruption.
“Our genuine efforts to deal with corruption and drugs have earned us international respect and this has encouraged us to do more’’.
“We know that by fighting the scourge of drugs and corruption and rebuilding trustworthiness, integrity, good business practices, and imposing discipline on youths to avoid drugs, we are not doing a favour to the international community, we are doing a favour to ourselves, ’’ the President said.
President Buhari also promised that his administration will work with the UN agency to rehabilitate young Nigerians who have been misled into consumption of illicit drugs and drug trafficking.
Mr. Fedotov told President Buhari that UNODC has chosen Nigerian as a pilot country for support and strategic cooperation in the fight against drugs and corruption.
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