Posted on: 08:36 Tue, 02 Feb 2016



Buhari’s Foreign Trips Are For the Good of Nigerians, says Presidency

The Presidency on Monday declared that President Muhammadu Buhari’s
foreign trips are not jamboree but for the good of the country.
The Senior Special Assistant to the President on media and publicity, Mallam
Garba Shehu, disclosed this to State House correspondents in Abuja.

According to him, the need to block all safe havens for looted funds from
Nigeria was at the heart of the President on his trips outside the country.

Buhari’s trips abroad, he said, have succeeded in making his administration
secure agreements and understanding with various countries on recovery and
repatriation of stolen funds.

He said that top security officials in the country would, in the next one week,
travel to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to further actualize an agreement on
recovery and repatriation of stolen funds.

He said “You also see gradually the strategic efforts to go after the stolen funds
abroad. The UAE is very important to the country.

“Don’t be surprised that in the coming week or two, you will see high level
security officials leaving Nigeria for the UAE to begin to give expression to our
wish to enjoy this new cooperation between the two countries with a view to
recovering stolen assets.

“There are numerous agreements we have also signed with them. Drugs, human
trafficking and assets that have been stolen abroad. So, the President wants to
make it difficult for people, even when they steal from Nigeria, there would
probably be no hiding place for stolen assets,” he added.