I Will Publish Names of Treasury Looters Currently Returning Funds – Buhari Assures Nigerians
Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari
has guaranteed that he will publish the names of treasury looters who
are currently returning stolen money.
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The
President made this disclosure known while speaking at the 15th session
of the Anyiam-Osigwe Foundation lecture at the International Conference
Centre, in Abuja.
He said, ”We have taken steps
towards recovering a reasonable amount of the money that was looted or
misappropriated from public coffers. Investigations are ongoing on
public officers who served, or are still serving, and those whose
conduct are questionable will be compelled to accept the path of honour
and surrender their loot”.
”As I stated recently, a good number of
people who abused their positions are voluntarily returning the illicit
funds. I have heard it said that we should disclose the names of the
people, and the amount returned.
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Yes,
in due course, the Central Bank of Nigeria will make information
available to the public on the surrendered funds, but I must remark that
it is yet early days, and any disclosure now may jeopardize the
possibility of bigger recoveries. But we owe Nigerians adequate
information, and it shall come in due course. It is part of the
collective effort to change our land from the bastion of corruption it
currently is, to a place of probity and transparency.
”Quite
frankly, the anti-corruption war is not strictly about me as a person,
it is about building a country where our children, and the forthcoming
generations, can live in peace and prosperity. When you see dilapidated
infrastructure round the country, it is often the consequence of
corruption.
”Poor healthcare, collapsed education, lack of public
utilities, decayed social services, are all products of corruption, as
those entrusted with public resources put them in their private pockets.
That must stop, if we want a new Nigeria. And that was why I said at
another forum that people need not fear me, but they must fear the
consequences of their actions. Corrupt acts will always be punished, and
there will be no friend, no foe. We will strive to do what is fair and
just at all times, but people who refuse to embrace probity should have
every cause to fear.”
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