President Muhammadu Buhari revealed during his official visit to the United States, US, that his government was examining evidence that would lead to the arrest and prosecution of some ministers and other government officials in the administration of former President Goodluck Jonathan for looting and stealing of Nigeria’s crude oil.

Buhari said this while answering questions during an interactive session with Nigerians in Diaspora at the Nigerian Embassy in Washington. According to him, some of the affected officials were involved in illegal sale and diversion of crude oil monies belonging to the Federal Government to multiple private accounts abroad.

“When we get as much as we can get as soon as possible, we will approach those countries to freeze those accounts and go to court, prosecute those people and let the accounts be taken to Nigeria. The amount of money is mind burgling but we have started getting documents. We have started getting documents where some of the senior people in government, former ministers, some of them had as much as five accounts and were moving about one million barrel per day on their own,” said President Buhari.

Continuing, he said, “We will ask for the cooperation of those countries to return those monies to federation accounts and we will use those documents to arrest those people and prosecute them. This, I promise Nigerians.” He frowned at the way and manner the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, is being managed, saying his administration would check the excesses of the corporation. He also said that his administration would carefully study the issue of oil subsidy and take a decision soon.