Ex- government officials now returning stolen funds - Buhari

Ex- government officials now returning stolen funds - Buhari

President Muhammadu Buhari has said some treasury looters in the immediate past administration of President Goodluck Jonathan have started returning stolen funds to his government.
He made the remark at a forum with the Nigerian community in Tehran, Republic of Iran.
The President also explained while answering a question that those accused of corruption would have been prosecuted by now but for the need to thoroughly investigate them with a view to gathering evidences for their eventual trial.
He said that it was easy for him during his tenure as a military Head of State in1985 to arrest and put those allegedly corrupt individuals in protective custody for them to prove their innocence, but the dictates of rule of law and due process had slowed him down in prosecuting corruption in this dispensation.
He said: “On corruption; yes, they are still innocent. But, we are collecting documents and some of them have started voluntarily returning something. But we want all.