The US has handed to President Muhammadu Buhari the list of Nigerian oil thieves.According to the Punch,a memeber of the President's entourage during last week's visit to the US,confided in them.
“I can tell you that the President already has the list of names of the people engaging in the stealing of Nigeria’s oil. The list, when released by the President, will shock Nigerians. But let’s wait and see first,” the source said.
The source says that the President was awestruck when he saw the names on the list and that he might be compelled to probe the administration of former President Goodluck Jonathan.
A presidency source also confirmed that Buhari had such a list,but that "the President has been keeping the list to himself."
The source who told Punch correspondent about the list in the President's possession ,said the US gave Buhari 2 separate lists-one listing the names of top government officials who have been stealing the country's oil,using their high offices to perpetrate the stealing;the other containing the names of illegal oil bunkerers.
Recall that the President had said last week,that some ministers in the cabinet of Jonathan were stealing as much as 250,000 barrels of Nigeria's crude oil.
The Presidency source who spoke to one of Punch's correspondents on condition of anonymity,said Buhari had vowed that those whose names appear on the lists would not go scot-free.
"The Presidency would probe all of them and make sure they recover whatever fortune they had made from their thievery," the source had said.
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