Mr. Olanipekun Olukoyede, the Secretary of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), has disclosed that the United States Government threatened to retrieve the $308million looted by former Head of State, the late Gen Sani Abacha, if it is ”stolen again” in Nigeria after being repatriated.
Olukayode made this known during an anti-corruption walk organised in collaboration with the Ministry of Youths and Sports Development and the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) in Lagos
He said “Two weeks ago, I was privileged to be on the team that went to recover $308million for Nigeria. They are from Washington. You know what the Oyinbos told us when we wanted to sign the treaty? They had the audacity to look into our eyes and said: ‘If you people steal this money again, we will collect it back from you.’ I stood up against them, I said: ‘We are not a corrupt nation. A few people might have stolen money, but Nigeria is not a corrupt nation. We have a lot of youths who are not corrupt. And you know it is not their fault, (they said that) because they have seen recovered loot being looted again.”