I Will Prosecute Former Ministers For Looting, Oil Theft- Buhari

President Muhammadu Buhari today at the Nigerian embassy in
Washington while answering questions at an interactive session with Nigerians
in the Diaspora has said the Federal Government was examining pieces of
evidence that would lead to the arrest and prosecution of some former ministers
and other government officials for looting and stealing of Nigeria’s crude oil.
He said;

“We are now looking for evidences of shipping some of our
crude, their destinations and where and which accounts they were paid and in
which country.

 “When we get as much
as we can get as soon as possible, we will approach those countries to freeze
those accounts and go to court, prosecute those people and let the accounts be
taken to Nigeria. Continue…

“The amount of money is mind-burgling but we have started getting
documents.

“We have started getting documents where some of the senior
people in government, former ministers, some of them had as much as five
accounts and were moving about one million barrel per day on their own.

“We have started getting those documents. Whichever
documents we are able to get and subsequently trace the sale of the crude or
transfer of money from Ministries, Departments, Central Bank.

“We will ask for the cooperation of those countries to
return those monies to federation accounts and we will use those documents to
arrest those people and prosecute them. This, I promise Nigerians.“