President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission to begin the compilation of a list of stolen funds under the administration of the immediate past president Goodluck Jonathan.
The compiled documents detailing names, amounts, banks and countries where the funds are illegally stashed would be needed by the international community which has promised to help the president recover all stolen funds under Jonathan’s administration.
The Punch reported that this new move is to ascertain the extent of stolen funds under the past administration.
Buhari had in a live programme on Nigerian television on July 27, said the international community has shown readiness to assist Nigeria recover all stolen money.
The president had said that his administration had started compiling necessary documents that would enable the international community to assist Nigeria in recovering the funds.
Buhari said: “We are trying to get these documents; we are getting cooperation from the international community. We are going very soon to make sure that those who perpetrated this crime against Nigeria will be faced with facts and be taken to our courts.”
This new directive has caused the EFCC and Independent Corrupt Practices And Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) to start analysing petitions written against ministries, agencies and departments with a view to getting the amount stolen and those responsible for it.
A source close to one of the anti-graft agencies said the management of the anti-graft agencies had started analysis of the petitions it received from various government agencies.
It was learnt that the EFCC boss, Ibrahim Larmorde has called for all the petitions and files against the different government bodies in preparedness for an investigation in line with Buhari’s directive.
It was further reported that the files were allocated to various units of the commission to commence the process of invitation and interrogation, while the ICPC is said to be secretly investigating civil servants that are believed to have their hands soiled.
The source said: “I think what is happening is not sudden; the President gave an instruction to the EFCC and the ICPC to ensure that they submit how much has been stolen in the various sectors of the economy.
“Since then, the Chairman of the EFCC called for all the files of the various agencies; they are quite many and they were being sifted.”
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