The Minister of Foreign Affairs,
Geoffrey Onyeama, has said the current Federal Government was unaware that the
United States, US, government was monitoring some Ministers who served under
the administration of the immediate past President, Goodluck Jonathan.
Addressing State House
Correspondents at the Presidential villa, in Abuja, yesterday, Onyeama said the
US government was listening to the telephone conversations of some of
Jonathan’s Ministers on some “suspicious” investments made in the country.
The Minister further noted that
the current government was making efforts to recover stolen funds stashed away
in foreign countries.
“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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