Kerry:all stolen cash to go back to Nigeria

 
Lagos - The US government will facilitate the repatriation of all stolen Nigerian funds found within the American banking system.
US Secretary of State John Kerry made the pledge in Washington on Thursday at a meeting with the Nigerian president.
Kerry said he had been told the stolen Nigerian funds were in “billions of dollars”, according to a statement on Thursday evening from Muhammadu Buhari’s special adviser on media and publicity, Femi Adesina.
“It’s not easy to hide that amount of money and we are pretty good in tracing them,” Kerry assured Buhari.
He added that relevant US government officials would meet with the chairman of Nigeria’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission to discuss further co-operation in that regard.
Buhari declared that his administration would continue to vigorously prosecute its war against corruption, and sought the assistance of the US in this regard.
“It will greatly help our country if you assist us to recover all our stolen funds which we can establish to be within your financial system,” he told Kerry.
On the war against insurgency in Nigeria, Kerry applauded the Buhari administration’s success in rolling back the Boko Haram insurgency.
He stated that the US would continue to give Nigeria all possible support to ensure that the terrorist sect is finally eliminated as a threat to national and regional security.
He also praised Buhari’s clear order that Nigeria’s armed forces must show greater regard for the human rights of persons in the theatre of operations against Boko Haram.
Buhari acknowledged that the US had been of great help to his administration in the retraining and re-equipping of the Nigerian armed forces that had resulted in the significant success already achieved against Boko Haram.
Buhari said that the federal government was now working very hard to restore full normalcy in the north-eastern states.
“Boko Haram no longer holds any local government area. We are reconstructing damaged facilities and preparing the police to take over and reassert civilian control over areas affected by the insurgency,” he said.