Nigeria plans to demand the repatriation of looted public funds to countries of origin, including Nigeria at the forthcoming 72nd United Nations General Assembly holding in New York, its Foreign Affairs Minister, Geoffrey Onyeama said on Tuesday in Abuja.
Onyeama said President Muhammadu Buhari would lead a large delegation to the assembly which would hold between September 12 and 25,2017.
He said the fight against terrorism, human rights protection, repatriating illicit financial assets to countries of origin, among other global issues would top Nigeria’s agenda at the UN.
according to him, Nigeria is facing challenges of repatriating stolen funds stashed in foreign countries.
“The country would push to actualize the UN resolution on ‘Promotion of International Cooperation to Combat Illicit Financial Flows’ so that all the countries of the world would be fully engaged in repatriating stolen funds to countries of origin,” Onyeama said at a press briefing in Abuja on Tuesday.
according to him, Nigeria is facing challenges of repatriating stolen funds stashed in foreign countries.
“The country would push to actualize the UN resolution on ‘Promotion of International Cooperation to Combat Illicit Financial Flows’ so that all the countries of the world would be fully engaged in repatriating stolen funds to countries of origin,” Onyeama said at a press briefing in Abuja on Tuesday.
“For Nigeria, it is a developmental issue, it impacts directly on the developmental trajectory of Nigeria and other developing countries that resources that we need to promote development in the country are being siphoned out of the system and this has a negative impact on the developmental challenges that we face.,” the minister noted.
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