The British Judiciary is Responsible for the Delay of Looted Funds Return – UK Envoy  

The British High Commissioner, Mr Paul Albright, yesterday disclosed that the long legal process in the United Kingdom is responsible for the delay in repatriating Nigerian looted funds stashed in UK banks. He said this while paying a courtesy call on the Alake and paramount ruler of Egbaland, Oba Adedotun Aremu Gbadebo at his Ake palace, in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital.According to the Albright, President Buhari emphasised at the last anti-corruption summit in London the urgency the country attaches to the repatriation of the stolen money. He said, “President Buhari made that very simple when he was in London. He was in London for an anti-corruption summit, which my Prime Minister hosted. We need international action to fight corruption, we need all the looted funds from around the world, including the UK and elsewhere, to return to the rightful place which is with the people of Nigeria. “The United Kingdom is doing everything that we can to ensure that those funds are returned to Nigeria. We have no interest, no intention of keeping that money. We want it to go back to Nigeria. The issue is around legality of that. You will understand that the United Kingdom, just like Nigeria, is a country which respects the rule of law; we have an independent judicial process.