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Abuja – President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday warned his successors not to return looting and property recovered by his administration to those who looted the nation's treasure.
He recalled that stolen property The regime was restored to them when it was overthrown in 1983.
Buhari said it was not to see a repetition of this that the administration current sold capital recovered looters and put the money in the coffers of government to prevent
The president answered a question about the fight against corruption of Nigeria at a joint press conference in after the visit of Namibian President Hage Geingob to the presidential villa of Abuja
. "We are suing people who have declared assets, but we find that they have a lot more than what they said, we track them through their bank accounts to the companies that they have formed.
"Sometimes they swear to Almighty God that their structures that can not grow their feet and run away do not belong to them. Then they are confronted with their bank accounts.
"Again, using my experiences when I was arrested and detained, people were rendered what they appropriated themselves. This time, I said we were going to sell them in the treasure and I'll see who will come after who will have the guts to take the treasure money and give it to anyone. "
Buhari also said his administration would soon reorganize the justice of the country to ensure the effective fight against corruption in the country
His administration, he said, envisages entrusting judges with the treatment of cases of corruption where all those who find fault in their business will 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 with 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 in the process of reorganizing the justice system.
"We are going to dedicate some judges to corruption cases and try to prosecute and prosecute all those who have proven that they have questions, so that's what I tell you that we do not have." 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 on the deployment of Nigerian volunteers in the country under the auspices of the Technical Aid Corps, said that he was in Nigeria to pay tribute to the former Executive Secretary of ECA Economic Commission), Professor Adebayo Adedeji, whom he describes as his mentor.
Adedeji, who passed April 25 of this year, will be buried on July 7.
Geingob praised Buhari for his efforts in fighting corruption in Nigeria and beyond, lamen The Namibian president also said that, for his part, he had declared war on poverty and corruption in his country , stressing that strong people like Buhari were needed to control the plague. , adding that he was following Buhari's trails.
"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 adds
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