55 people stole $6.2 billion from Nigeria – Lai Mohammed

The minister for information and culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has revealed that the sum of $6.2 billion public fund was stolen from the national coffers.

The minister said the money was stolen by 55 people but refused to list the names of the people who siphoned the public fund.

Lai Mohammed made this known on Aljazeera, while speaking on a video called Kleptocracy Tour, a tour organised by anti-corruption campaigners in the British capital to expose money laundering by foreigners.

Mohammed said if only one third of the stolen money was returned to Nigeria it will build 600 kilometres of Roads, thirty seven hospitals, twenty thousand housing unit and train four thousand kids from primary to university level.