Buhari’s foreign trips aimed at recoveringlooted funds – FG

The Presidency on Monday said the foreign trips by
President Muhammadu Buhari were necessitated by
his desire to block and recover funds looted from
Nigeria.
The Senior Special Assistant to the President on
Media and Publicity, Mallam Garba Shehu, said this
in an interview with State House correspondents.
Buhari will on Tuesday travel to

France and Britain.
He had visited Kenya and Ethiopia last week.
But Shehu said it would be wrong to describe the
President’s foreign trips as jamboree.
He said so far, Buhari had during his trips secured
agreements with various countries on recovery and
repatriation of stolen funds.
He also disclosed that some top security officials in
the country would, in the next one week, travel to
the United Arab Emirates to further actualise an
agreement on recovery and repatriation of stolen
funds.
Shehu said, “You also see gradually the strategic
efforts to go after the stolen funds abroad. The UAE
is very important to the country.
“Don’t be surprised that in the coming week or two,
you will see high level security officials leaving
Nigeria for the UAE to begin to give expression to
our wish to enjoy this new cooperation between the
two countries with a view to recovering stolen assets.
“There are numerous agreements we have also signed
with them; drugs, human trafficking and stolen
assets that have been stolen abroad.
“So, the President want to make it difficult for
people, even when then steal from Nigeria, there
would probably be no hiding place for stolen assets.”