Money laundering will soon be history

Abuja - Governor of Zamfara Abdulaziz Yari said that money laundering will soon be history as the three levels of government have intensified their efforts to combat corrupt practices in the country.

Yari said this when answering questions of the correspondents of the State House after a private meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari in the presidential villa in Abuja on Tuesday.

He said the current fight against corruption in the administration of the Buhari was a clear indication that the age of criminal diversion of government money into private pockets had ended.

"We know that this country is our country. We can not have another country we will be free to move out of Nigeria. Therefore, we are the people who will make a better country."

"The problem is that we travel abroad and see how they do their stuff, but when we return, it becomes a problem to put it on the table and do the same."

When traveling abroad and carry $ 2,000 to pay at the counter, people look at you and wonder how you got the money in this cashless society, "he said.

The governor stressed that all hands must be on deck to ensure a society without corruption, and said the president Buhari could not only fight against corruption.

"We all have to put our hands on deck to ensure that we support this government to fight against corruption which led to money laundering," he added.

Adams Oshiomhole governor, who also spoke to correspondents in the trial of a former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke in a London court on money laundering, said he was justified.

"For me, I do not think anyone should be surprised because most favorable commentator Nigerian state, the economy, the political system and society, everyone agrees that our economy has been badly managed in recent years."

"I have not seen a commentator disagree. Even when they talk about rebasing what? Did you base level of poverty? Do you prosperity re-based? Do you refundada unemployed? Do you Re based roaming? Do you rebased hungry? "he asked.

The governor expressed satisfaction with the ongoing war against corruption in the country.

He said: "I am the happiest person because I am in government for seven years without being in power."

"I was in government, could not call a police commissioner and I speak as a security officer, I am obsessed with all kinds of people."

"You kill the snake in Edo, put the snake in sustaining life in Abuja and continue to haunt us."

"Now all these poisons are dead and buried. For the first time I am excited and happy, not only for personal gain, but for the changes that I begin to see," he said.