United States’ Ambassador to Nigeria, Mr. James Entwistle, speaks with BAYO AKINLOYE of Punch Newspaper

Q: With various figures being bandied about concerning Nigeria’s looted funds kept abroad, like in the US, amounting to between $61 billion and $150 billion, how much really is the US trying to assist Nigeria recover?

A: It is hard to say because we have not — we do not — know about all of the divergence; all of the investigations already held. Getting the money back will take a long time. First of all, it takes forensic accounting work to figure out exactly what money is where; it is not an easy task. The second thing is (that) whenwe make cases and we take them to court,they can take a long time in the court. I believe the case involving the Abacha era; they are still working on it in the US. Therefore, the one thing that is absolutely crystal clear, however, as we said to Mr. President in Washington, is our intent and our willingness to work with this case. Buteven if they take time, even if we do not know the exact amount (of Nigeria’s looted funds) right now, we will do everything we can to help with the cases.

http://www.punchng.com/feature/interview/its-difficult-to-recover-nigerias-stolen-money-stashed-abroad-us-ambassador/

We know it's hard, but we're expecting PMB to do d magic like he promised.

In other words APC conjectures have hit a deadend.

believe and you'll achieve what you never thought possible

Gej stolen funds, you mean?

by d time baba descend on ur pay master, you will know that yoghurt just resemble sperm, it can never form foetus.....

Lolz.., very different from the information Buhari and APC have been feeding their gullible supporters with. Going by the propaganda, one would think the trillions of dollars, allegedly looted and stashed abroad, will be recovered and culprits imprisoned in a matter of days. That is even if there is any looted fund stashed abroad.

In other words, we're saddled with a govt that is on a wild goose chase, and this is a govt that will hit the 100 days mark in a few days, no cabinet, no project initiated or continued, no policy, no programme, no achievement and no direction, with confusion reigning supreme. Everything is on autopilot from the way it was left by the last administration.

Govt of propaganda, by propaganda and for propaganda! Govt of body language and fear of Buhari. Yeye dey smell.

I smell failure!!! Elect mr aboki again so that we can continue to trace the root of our looted treasure that we could not finish last term due to bureacratic bottle neck............ APC body language!

its difficult but not impossible right? good! #BringBackOurMoney

Ok

No problem

not just to recover only, make sure u arrest the people behind it

Awon weyery!!!!!!!!!

Okay na..

What is important is to establish funds are laundered and come an agreement with those directly involved, as long as they are willing to bring back what belongs to me and you, there is no need to go through the long process. But do not forget the crime committed is not only in usa but also in Nigeria and as such if they fail to co-operate, they risk jail time for themselves and their families.

Nigeria must be great again.

Haha.. And that Diarrhoea mouthed OshoMonkey made us to believe that he was given a list.... APC and propaganda be like beans and rice...

Mouth action government..

They are just using this ambassador as a mouth piece.
This government wouldnt achieve anything in four years.

This is just an excuse not to retrieve the money they claimed the previous administration stole.

Mtcheew...walahi I don tire for diz country matter....as much as I like buhari,he is beginning 2 piss me off.....d way he was talking during campaign was like he had a magic wand he was planning to use....like he wud just enter and command boko haram to disappear etc...well still waiting for $1=#1

No that's where I come in.

Next

My candid advice to General Muhammadu Buhari is, do not waste 4yrs chasing want can`t be recovered, make efforts to properly safeguard what is coming in and utilize such well with less leakages.

Buhari is just wasting his time. Money wen them don chop finish. He had better face more important things than to dey go round about yet you never catch any of the thief

I still blv dt even if we forget d past money and be sincere with what Nigeria will be earning a lot of things can still be achieve.. 9ja is blessed but bad and wicked leaders killing our society... #IblvinBuhari

Buhari come and here what dix guy is saying

As if they care about recovering the stolen funds when they're the ones who created the enabling system to stash the funds. Who is fooling who. Hypocrites.

Ahhhh. Its difficult but not impossible.

We must recover at least, a large part of it.

Its [size=20pt]LadyF[/size] again

I STILL BELIEVE in BUHARI.
My amiable PRESIDO
Haters chop shit

Boo... Poo..Buhari

lets concentrate on how to improve our economy with the available resources we have on ground

why now...?