Return stolen assets to original victims, Rafsanjani tells anti- corruption agencies

EXECUTIVE Director of Civil Society Legislative and Advocacy Centre ( CISLAC), Comrade Auwal Musa Rafsanjani, has charged governments, anti- graft and law enforcement agencies in Africa to ensure the original victims of stolen assets are given back assets stolen from their states when recovered.

Speaking at the Global South Forum for Asset Recovery, in Nairobi, Kenya, Rafsanjani, who doubles as the head of Transparency International Nigeria, decried the practice of marginalising the original victims of stolen assets ( whom the assets were stolen from in the first place) when recovered by governments across the continent.

He said the cases between the Nigerian government and Delta State and mismanaged COVID- 19 funds in Kenya are good examples, adding that if not properly checked, the assets risk being re- looted by officials who don’t mean well for their country.