Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in his bid to becoming the president of Nigeria has revealed that…
“If elected into office, my government will consider amnesty for looters. Such a method will be more productive in recovering looted funds. Such recovered funds will be invested in the country to create jobs, improve insecurity and grow the economy.”
“I give you an example of Turkey. Turkey gave amnesty and all the money taken abroad were brought back. The government said when you bring the money back, you don’t need to pay taxes; invest in manufacturing, technology and real estate. And look at Turkey today, it is like any other European country.”
“There was a panel set up when we came up, during the administration of Chief Olusegun Obasanjo. With that method, we recovered over $4bn. If we are to go into prosecuting these people, we would have been prosecuting them by now and that money would have been denied the country.”
“On the issue of corruption, we can use punitive and preventive measures. We should be able to introduce technology in the private and public sectors so that relationship between government and members of the public is not personal.”
“There is too much delay in the judicial system. If we can shorten the delay so that justice can be done quickly, the better. The National Assembly and the judiciary should deliberate on the ways out.”
Atiku Abubakar said all these on Wednesday, January 30th, 2019 during a town hall meeting tagged; “The Candidates” where he was featured alongside his running mate, Peter Obi.