On Tuesday, President Muhammadu Buhari said his administration had received firm words of cooperation from the United States and other countries in his quest to recover and repatriate funds stolen from Nigeria.
Stated through his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Mr. Femi Adesina, the President spoke while granting audience to members of the Northern Traditional Rulers Council led by the Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Sa’ad Abubakar III, at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
Adesina quoted Buhari as saying that it was now up to Nigeria to provide the international community with the facts and figures needed to drive the recovery effort.
“In the next three months, our administration will be busy getting those facts and the figures to help us recover our stolen funds in foreign countries,” Adesina quoted the President as saying.
Relying on the report submitted by the Ahmed Joda-led transition committee, President Buhari said that several revenue-generating institutions in the country had been compromised.
On the issue of insecurity, the President was also quoted as telling his guests, the northern traditional rulers that they have a key role to play in stemming terrorism and insurgency in the country.
This, he said, they would do by assisting the government with cost-effective intelligence gathering. The Sultan had earlier on presented the Northern Traditional Rulers’ recommendations to the President on issues relating to national development.