Senate President Bukola Saraki
has accused anti-corruption agencies of looting recovered proceeds of
corruption.
Saraki said this in his remarks
at the ‘Strategic Retreat on Tracking the Progress of Anti-Corruption Bills in
the National Assembly’ in Abuja on Tuesday.
He claimed that the mismanagement
of recovered loots, is the reason other countries are reluctant to repatriate
stashed funds back to Nigeria.
“In related matters, Nigeria is
finding it difficult to convince other nations to return funds looted from our
treasury.
“This is because of the other
nations’ exasperation over the management of returned assets.
“The National Assembly has been
strident about the opacity shrouding the management of recovered funds, which
in many cases get re-looted by the agencies that investigated and recovered
them.
“Only recently, Mr. President
inaugurated a committee to audit all assets recovered by various government
agencies.
“An ad hoc committee of the
Senate, which is investigating some administrative infractions in the
Executive, has discovered that many properties recovered from a fugitive from
the law have not been accounted for by the investigating agency.
“This gives the global community
great concern about the commitment of Nigeria to the anti-corruption drive.
“We must work hard to erase this
global impression because it is not a representation of who we are.
“The passage of these bills,
which is the subject of this retreat, will illuminate the unflinching resolve
of the National Assembly towards the anti-corruption efforts of the government;
and should secure international confidence in Nigeria’s handling of the tricky
issues around corruption,” Saraki noted.
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