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Gov’t Officials Still Stealing Oil Under My Watch – Buhari

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President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday, July 27, 2015 admitted that Nigeria’s crude oil ha been illegally lifted under his watch.

Speaking on a Television program, Good Morning Nigeria on Nigeria Television Authority (NTA), President Buhari said that said oil theft was going on up until Friday, July 10, 2015, more than a month since he asusmed office.

He said: “The multiparty democracy system for developing countries has its advantages and relative disadvantages in the sense that for us to get the help of the developed countries, we have to get our facts: documents, complete and reliable investigation, take them to court and get these people prosecuted.

“Meanwhile, the theft continues. Up to the 10th of this month (July), our crude is still being illegally lifted by people who are in government.

“We are trying to get these documents; we are getting cooperation from the international community. We are going very soon to make sure that those who perpetrated this crime against Nigeria will be faced with facts and be taken to our courts.

“We have got the cooperation of some of the countries that are the destinations of our crude and we are discussing with them. We have to maintain high confidentiality so that we don’t risk some of the people in Nigeria that are helping us to trace the destinations of this stolen crude and then the accounts where the proceeds are being paid instead of the Federal Government account.

“I don’t think the NNPC knows how many accounts are there in which payments are made on Nigerian crude. The monumental fraud has been going on for a number of years; a lot of Nigerians cannot comprehend it.”

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