From Kemi Yesufu and Fred Itua, Abuja
SPEAKER, House of Representatives, Hon. Yakubu Dogara, has appealed to the international community, especially Western nations to assist in the recovery of billions of dollars looted from the country.
His Special Adviser, Media and Public Affairs, Turaki Hassan, said Dogara made the appeal at the close of the Fourth World Conference of Speakers of Parliament organised by the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) in New York, United States of America.
The Speaker said Western nations have both moral and legal obligations to Nigeria and other African countries to ensure that monies stolen from Africa are repatriated.
He said the return of such funds would boost job creation and ultimately reduce to the barest mini- mum, the surge of migrants to Europe from Africa.
Dogara also begged heads of parliaments from the West to enact legislations that will block the movement of stolen funds from Africa to their home countries.
He said the new administration is determined to end the six years insurgency, fight corruption and put the country on the pedestal of growth and development.