President Buhari has asked the United States for help in recovering stolen Nigerian funds stashed in U.S. banks.
This was disclosed in a statement signed by the President’s media aide, Femi Adesina on Thursday in Washington DC at a two-days nuclear security summit.
The statement reads in part: “President Buhari sought and received an assurance from Mr. Kerry that the United States Government will facilitate the repatriation of all stolen Nigerian funds found within the American banking system”.
Buhari told Kerry it would “greatly help our country if you assist us to recover all our stolen funds which we can establish to be within your financial system,” according to the statement.
It said Kerry assured Buhari the United States would help and said U.S. officials would meet with the head of Nigeria’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission to discuss further cooperation.
State Department spokesman John Kirby confirmed that Kerry had offered “continued U.S. support to locate and help with tracing and investigating looted funds, as we have done for Nigeria in the past
