Speaker of the Nigeria House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, has appealed to the international community, especially Western nations to help return billions of dollars looted from Nigeria by corrupt politicians and business people.
Dogara, according to a statement by his Special Adviser on Media and Public Affairs Turaki Hassan made the appeal at the close of the Fourth World Conference of Speakers of Parliament organised by the Inter-Parliamentary Union ,IPU, in New York.
The Speaker said that Western nations have both moral and legal obligation to Nigeria and other African countries to ensure that monies stolen from Africa are repatriated back.
He said that the return of such funds will help create jobs for millions of jobless young men and women and ultimately reduce to the bearest minimum the surge of migrants to Europe from Africa.
Dogara appealed to heads of parliaments from the West to enact legislations that will block the movement of stolen funds from Africa to their home countries.
He said that as Presiding officers of the legislature, Speakers of Western parliaments should put pressure on their governments to return such looted funds to Nigeria.
The Speaker said that the international community has to come together to fight terrorism as according to hin, “no nation is insulate from its scourge.”
Doing so, according to him, is the surest way to defeat terrorists because most terrorist organisations have links to each other.
He commended the Nigerian military for the recent successes recorded against the insurgents and urged them to push on until the war is won.
He said that Nigeria`s new government is determined to send the six years insurgency, fight corruption and put the country on the pedestal of growth and development. [myad]
