Politics 2018 Budget Will Be Partly Funded With Recovered Loot - Sagay

Chairman of the Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption, Itse Sagay, on Friday announced that FG will partly fund the proposed N8.6 trillion budget for 2018 with funds recovered from treasury looters. 

He said Nigerians had never witnessed the recovery of looted funds as huge as the quantum the President Muhammadu Buhari Administration had achieved in the last two years.

He revealed further that N500bn from what has been recovered is going to be used to fund the budget in 2018.

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