Recovered loots being stolen by anti-graft agencies - Saraki

Recovered loots being stolen by
anti-graft agencies - Saraki
- Bukola Saraki said President Buhari is
committed to the fight against corruption
- He alleged that recovered loots were being
stolen by anti-graft agencies
- He said this was affecting return f foreign
loots to Nigeria
Senate president, Bukola Saraki has
alleged that the reason foreign nations
are reluctant to return looted funds to
Nigeria was because of the bad
management of them.
The Punch reports that the Senate
president made these remarks at the
‘Strategic Retreat on Tracking the
Progress of Anti-Corruption Bills in the
National Assembly’ in Abuja on
Tuesday, November 28.
Saraki alleged that proceeds of
corruption recovered by the
government were being looted by anti-
corruption agencies which was affecting
return of foreign loots.
He said the National Assembly was
focused on the issue of corruption and
addressing the problem.
He said every bill passed was tilted
towards how the National Assembly
would contribute to the fight against
corruption.
Saraki said President Muhammadu
Buhari’s commitment towards the fight
against corruption was not in doubt.
He said: “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.
“Only recently, Mr. President
inaugurated a committee to audit all
assets recovered by various government
agencies.
“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.
“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.
Meanwhile, Reno Omokri, the former
spokesperson to ex-president Goodluck
Jonathan, reacted to a statement
credited to the chairman of the
Presidential Advisory Committee on
Anti-Corruption (PACAC), Prof. Itse
Sagay, that if Jonathan had another
three years in the office, Nigerians
would have been crossing Sahara to
Libya.