Buhari warns his successors not to return stolen goods to looters

• Promises to Recast the Judiciary

Omololu Ogunmade in Abuja

President Muhammadu Buhari warned his successors on Wednesday not to return the looting and assets recovered by his administration from those who have plundered the national treasure. He recalled that the property stolen from looters during his military regime was returned to them when he was ousted in 1983.

Buhari said that it was not to repeat that the lorry. current administration had sold the salvaged assets The president was responding to a question about the fight against corruption in Nigeria at a joint press conference following the visit of Namibian President Hage Geingob to the conference Press. Presidential Villa, Abuja

He said, "We are suing the people who have declared property, but we find that they have a lot more than what they said.We follow them through their accounts. banking to the companies that they formed to the contracts they obtained.

"Sometimes they swear to Almighty God that their structures that can not grow and run away belong to them not. Then they are confronted with their bank accounts.

"Again, using my experiences when I was arrested and detained, people were rendered what they appropriated.This time, I said that we were going to sell them and put the money in the treasure and I will see who will come after who will have the guts to take the treasure money and give it to anyone. "

& nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; Administration will soon reorganize the judiciary of the nation to ensure an effective fight against corruption in the country.

His administration, he said, plans to dedicate some judges to corruption cases where all those who miss their business will be prosecuted. The president added, "We will dedicate some judges to deal with corruption cases and try to put forward and prosecute all those for whom investigations have proven that they have issues to solve."

"So that's what I tell you we have not given up, we are doing our best and we will recover as much as possible humanely."

Buhari who said that the country had received the cooperation of other countries in the war against corruption despite the difficulties, added that the government was trying to sell recovered

"We are ready, but it is very difficult under this system of multiparty democracy. We get the cooperation of the countries. We try to sell the assets wherever we found them and bring the money into the Nigerian treasury. That's all I can say at this point because we are reorganizing the judiciary.

"We are going to dedicate judges to corruption cases and try to prosecute and prosecute all those who have proven that they have questions to ask." So, that's what I'm telling you. that we have not given up, we are doing our best and we will recover as much as possible humanely, "he said.

In his own presentation, Geingob thanked the Nigerian government for its support and assistance to Namibia, particularly for the deployment of Nigerian volunteers. the country under the Corps of Technical Assistance, said that he was in Nigeria to pay tribute to the former Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), the professor Adebayo Adedeji, whom he described as his mentor
who spent April 25, this year, will be buried on July 7.

Geingob congratulated Buhari on his efforts in fighting corruption in Nigeria and beyond, lamenting that corruption in Africa has become a threat, pointing out that people like Buhari were needed to control the scourge.

The Namibian president also said that he had declared war on poverty and corruption in his country, adding that he was following the Buhari trail.

"He (Buhari) is taking steps that will encourage us all.I have declared the war against poverty and corruption.I have declared my property publicly.I therefore emulate my brother here, he added