Governor Ifeanyi Okowa has said that they have written a protest letter to President Buhari, asking for the £4.2 million James Ibori loot which was repatraited to the country by the United Kingdom government to be returned to Delta state.
The Delta state
Governor who revealed this on Wednesday March 24 when he appeared on a Channels
Television programme, said he believes that since the money was stolen from the
state it would only be just to return the funds back to the state.
Okowa said;
“I have spoken with
the attorney-general of the federation. My attorney-general went to have a
meeting with him. I think that we are working and we are likely to come on the
same page. We have written a formal letter of protest to Mr President.
“In the same manner
of the relationship created between the UK and Nigeria, we also expect that the
Nigerian Government will do the same thing by being magnanimous to return the
money back to the source, which is Delta State."
The Governor said
that to guarantee that Deltans will benefit from the repatriated loot, they
provided options to the Federal Government and made a compelling case for the
state.
Okowa added;
“We have made two
suggestions; return the money directly to us or apply it directly to projects
that we feel are of importance and are in Delta State so that Deltans can
directly benefit from the repatriated funds and I don’t think anybody can fault
that line (of thinking)."
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