The Federal Government has signed an agreement with the United States of America and the Island of Jersey to repatriate the sum of $318,460,329 Bacha loot.
In a statement on Monday, the spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ferdinand Nwonye, said the agreement was signed on Monday at the United States Department of States, Washington DC.
According to Nwoye, the Federal Government intends to use the recovered loot to fund three major projects, namely, the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, the Abuja – Kano Expressway and the Second Niger Bridge and will be supervised by the Nigeria Sovereign Investment Authority.
The agreement was signed by the Attorney General of the Federation Mr. Abubakar Malami on behalf of the Federal Government, Mr. Mark Temple, Assistant Solicitor General of the Island of Jersey and Mr. Kevin Drisioil, Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the US Department of Justice on behalf of the Government of the United States signed the treaty.
The agreement, Nwoye also said, was witnessed by the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama and his counterparts from the Ministry of Industry, Trade and Investment; Humanitarian Affairs, Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, the National Security Adviser, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Group Managing Director of NNPC, and the Nigerian Ambassador to the United States of America, among others.
The delegates had travelled on Sunday for the annual three-day meeting of the United States-Nigeria Bi-national Commission in Washington DC.
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