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President Muhammadu Buhari has requested for the cooperation of the National Crime Agency of the United Kingdom in the investigation of the corrupt fugitives from Nigeria hibernating in that country.
Buhari made the call during a bilateral meeting with Prime Minister Boris Johnson in London on Monday.
The two leaders met on the sidelines of the UK-Africa Investment Summit 2020.
Both the NCA and Nigeria’s anti-graft agency are already collaborating. But it was the first time the request for collaboration was made at the highest level.
Buhari said the ongoing anti-corruption war in Nigeria, though slow but painstaking, needed the cooperation of the Agency.
Former Minister of Petroleum, Diezani Alison-Madueke, and other Nigerian fugitives in the UK had fled into exile since 2015 when the current administration of Buhari came on board.
In 2017, a Federal High Court in Lagos, presided over by Justice Abdulazeez Anka, ordered the final forfeiture of N7.6 billion alleged loot recovered by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) from Alison-Madueke.
Buhari also updated Johnson on the positive developments in Nigeria in different areas of national endeavour.
He told Johnson of strides in agriculture, leading almost to self-sufficiency in rice and other grains, which is saving the country billions in foreign exchange, which are now deployed to other areas of development.