The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project SERAP has urged the United States President-elect, Donald Trump, to identify US-based proceeds of corruption traced to former and current Nigerian public officials and the return of such to Nigeria.
SERAP urged Trump to “direct the US Department of Justice to promptly initiate civil asset forfeiture proceedings against proceeds of corruption traced to former and current Nigerian public officials and their associates so as to fulfill several non-controversial commitments by the US to assist Nigeria in asset recovery matters.”
SERAP also urged him “to identify and publish the names of former and current Nigerian public officials suspected to be responsible for corruption and the depositing of its proceeds in US banks, and to apply existing US presidential proclamations to temporarily ban such officials from entering the US.”
In a letter on Saturday, signed by SERAP deputy director, Kolawole Oluwadare, the organisation said former Petroleum Resources Minister Diezani Alison-Madueke’s looted assets and other recently returned assets were only a tiny fraction of the “over $500bn” that has been reportedly stolen from Nigeria and located in the US.
