President Buhari identify banks,countries who have been helping the oil thieves.

President Buhari said his government had started identifying banks, financial institutions and countries in which payments for stolen Nigerian crude oil had been made.
A statement by President’s Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Mr. Femi
Adesina, quoted Buhari as saying this while granting audience to some United
States Congressmen at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.

Adesina said the President acknowledged the support and cooperation his administration was receiving from the international community in gathering
required intelligence for tracing and recovering of stolen national resources.
Buhari reportedly told the US congressmen led by Rep. Darrel Issa, “We are
getting cooperation from the international community, including information on
ships that take crude oil from Nigeria and change direction, or pour their
contents into other ships mid-stream.

“Some monies were paid to individual accounts. We are identifying the financial
institutions and countries that are involved.
“I have been assured that when we get all our documents together, the United
States and other countries will treat our case with sympathy.’’
He also told them that his administration would welcome more regular
meetings of the Nigeria-United States Bi-National Commission, noting that the
commission could serve as a more useful platform for the promotion of bilateral
trade and economic relations as well as joint cooperation in the war against
terrorism.

Issa assured Buhari that the US would support Nigeria against Boko Haram by
providing training, intelligence and military platforms.
Buhari’s latest revelation on the steps being taken by his administration to
recover the country’s resources in the hands of corrupt citizens and oil thieves
came on the heels of recent report that the President was handed a list of
Nigerian oil thieves during his recent visit to the US.

“I can tell you that the President already has the list of names of the people
engaging in the stealing of Nigeria’s oil,” someone in the entourage of Buhari to
the US trip had confided in The PUNCH last week.
The source had said that Buhari was taken aback when he saw the names on
the list and that the list given to the President by the US might compel him to
probe the administration of former President Goodluck Jonathan.
A Presidency source had also confirmed that Buhari had such a list but that
“the President has been keeping the list to himself.”

The source, who spoke to The PUNCH about the list in the President’s
possession, said the US gave Buhari two separate lists – one listing the names
of top government officials who have been stealing the country’s oil, using their
high offices to perpetrate the stealing; and the other containing the names of
illegal oil bunkerers.