By Levinus Nwabughiogu
President Muhammadu Buhari, yesterday, in Abuja, said the process of recovering stolen funds had become tedious.
The President made the statement while receiving the Executive Secretary of United Nations Office for Drugs and Crime, Yury Fedotov, and stressed that the process had “become tedious” to the consternation of Nigerians.
He urged the UN agency to facilitate faster recovery of the stolen wealth stashed abroad. “We are looking for more cooperation from the EU, United States, other countries and international institutions to recover the nation’s stolen assets, particularly proceeds from the stolen crude oil,” the President said, according to a statement issued by Garba Shehu, his spokesman.
“It is taking very long and Nigerians are becoming impatient,” he added. Buhari told Fedotov that his government had worked very hard in the past 11 months to reverse the very negative global perception of Nigeria.
He said: “Our genuine efforts to deal with corruption and drugs have earned us international respect and this has encouraged us to do more.
“We know that by fighting the scourge of drugs and corruption and rebuilding trustworthiness, integrity, good business practices and imposing discipline on youths to avoid drugs, we are not doing a favour to the international community; we are doing a favour to ourselves.”
Fedotov told Buhari that UNODC had chosen Nigeria as a pilot country for support and cooperation in the fight against drugs and corruption.

SeverusSnape:
Dull Presidiot.
Your party members and you are also looters. You thought it was gonna be easy??.. Are you superman??

Adminisher:


It might not be easy to recover but a lot of PDP people will go to JAIL. Jonathan's jail is after the first term of Buhari.

allthingsgood:
[s]Honestly we have a serious problem in this country. Nigerians are natural negative cynical pessimist. Just look and the first set of comments and u see many frustrated and demented persons. Its almost like we enjoy hate and negativity. I dont know how they managed to call us the happiest people on earth[/s]

SeverusSnape:


Same way some zombies were saying immediately Buhari become president, Jona will be jailed

It's good to dream, dreamer.

allthingsgood:
Honestly we have a serious problem in this country. Nigerians are natural negative cynical pessimist. Just look and the first set of comments and u see many frustrated and demented persons. Its almost like we enjoy hate and negativity. I dont know how they managed to call us the happiest people on earth

tayebest:

we are watching!

Adminisher:


They are under a curse. They will cheer the people who stole their future and made their children slaves to other children. Tribalism is more serious than anything. Watch what is happening now, the serious power outage, Naira crash and unemployment was caused by six years of misrule. Any foreigner will tell you when you mess up an economy this year the effect will be felt five years down the line, yet these people still worship the clueless one who caused it all.
It is a big stronghold in the minds of Nigerian bred PDP supporters . I am not sorry for them o. The next few years will give everyone his own punishment

Jirate:
The only reason why it has become Difficult is because You and a lot of Your Party Members are also Involved, Period.

Adminisher:


They are under a curse. They will cheer the people who stole their future and made their children slaves to other children. Tribalism is more serious than anything. Watch what is happening now, the serious power outage, Naira crash and unemployment was caused by six years of misrule. Any foreigner will tell you when you mess up an economy this year the effect will be felt five years down the line, yet these people still worship the clueless one who caused it all.
It is a big stronghold in the minds of Nigerian bred PDP supporters . I am not sorry for them o. The next few years will give everyone his own punishment