US will help us to recover looted funds –Buhari

Firstclass newsline gathered that President Muhammadu Buhari on
Tuesday said his administration had received firm assurances of
cooperation from the United States and other countries in his quest to
recover and repatriate funds stolen from Nigeria.
According to a statement by his Special Adviser on Media and
Publicity, Mr. Femi Adesina, the President spoke while granting
audience to members of the Northern Traditional Rulers Council led by
the Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Sa'ad Abubakar III, at the Presidential
Villa, Abuja.
Adesina quoted Buhari as saying that it was now up to Nigeria to
provide the international community with the facts and figures needed
to drive the recovery effort.
He said he would be busy, in the next three months, getting the facts
that would help in recovering the stolen funds.
"In the next three months, our administration will be busy getting
those facts and the figures to help us recover our stolen funds in
foreign countries," Adesina quoted the President as saying.
Citing the report submitted by the Ahmed Joda-led transition
committee, President Buhari said that several revenue-generating
institutions in the country had been compromised.
On insecurity, the President was also quoted as telling the
traditional rulers that they would play a key role in stemming
terrorism and insurgency in the country.
This, he said, they would do by assisting the government with
cost-effective intelligence gathering.
Buhari also assured the traditional rulers that his administration was
working hard to end insecurity and terrorism in the country in the
shortest possible time with the cooperation of neighbouring countries
and the international community.
Acknowledging that Nigerians expected a lot from his administration,
the President appealed for patience and understanding while his
government works diligently to speedily overcome the huge national
challenges it inherited.
The Sultan had earlier presented the Northern Traditional Rulers'
recommendations to the President on issues related to national
development.
He told the President that as custodians of tradition and stakeholders
in the Nigerian project, the traditional rulers had a responsibility
to always advise political leaders on the "path of truth and justice."
"We have always advised our leaders, but their acceptance of our
advice is their own prerogative," the Sultan said.
The traditional rulers assured the President of their unflinching
support for his administration's efforts to fulfil its promises to
Nigerians.
The traditional rulers later joined the President in the traditional
breaking of fast.
They were also joined by some state governors.
Firstclassnewsline.net