who had recently signed an agreement
The Nigerian Government has ac find cused Switzerland of conning the country, as it tries to recover stolen funds looted by late military head of state, Sani Abacha. The Federal Government, who had recently signed an agreement with Switzerland for the release of $322 million stolen bformer dictator, said it had to cross many hurdles, while paying a certain percentage at every interval in trying to repatriate the money home. Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyema, said this while speaking at the second International conference on combating illicit financial Flows (IFF) and enhancing asset recovery for susta house business inable development in Abuja on Tuesday. “For developing countries as ourselves, it’s so much more difficult – the kind of hurdles that we have to overcome,” he said. “Large sums of money have been found in Jersey, for instance, and other countries are laying claim to it, because in getting to Jersey, it passed through different jurisdictions. W