…As Buhari issues directive on use of fund
The British Government has agreed to return to Nigeria £4.2million being part of the funds so far recovered from friends and family members of the former governor of Delta State, James Ibori.
The British High Commission to Nigeria, Ms. Catriona Laing, who disclosed this on Tuesday in Abuja, said this is the first tranche of the planned funds repatriation.
Laing said the amount that is currently being returned were retrieved from friends and family members of the former governor.
She noted the Ibori case is complicated and the United Kingdom authorities were still working on the total actual amount involved in the case.
Laing, who spoke during the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between both countries in Abuja, assured that more of such recoveries from the Ibori case would be returned to Nigeria in due course.
The Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, who signed for Nigeria, said that President Muhammadu Buhari has directed that the returned loots be deployed to complete the second Niger Bridge, Lagos-Ibadan express way and the Abuja-Kano express way projects.