The United States has given support $52.88 million to Nigeria. This money changed into taken illegally by Nigeria’s ragged Petroleum Minister, Diezani Alison-Madueke, all around the time Goodluck Jonathan changed into president.
The announcement came from Lateef Fagbemi, Nigeria’s Authorized legitimate-Neatly-liked and Minister of Justice, all over a ceremony in Abuja the put the US and Nigeria signed an settlement referring to the money.
Fagbemi said that $50 million of this money will struggle by the World Financial institution to reduction bring electrical energy to rural areas in Nigeria.
The quite various $2 million shall be outmoded to reduction impact Nigeria’s court machine higher and fight corruption.
The US Ambassador to Nigeria, Richard Mills, said it’s most critical that this money is outmoded fastidiously to if truth be told support the of us of Nigeria.
This return of money is fraction of a bigger effort by both Nigeria and the US to prevent corruption and reinforce Nigeria’s economic system.
