The Federal Government on Sunday said anti-corruption agencies have gathered information about how looters were burying stolen funds in forests and burial grounds.

Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed disclosed this in a statement issued on Sunday in Lagos.

Mohammed said the whistleblower policy had led to the recovery of stolen funds in different currencies.

In a statement signed by his Special Adviser, Mr Segun Adeyemi, the minister assures Nigerians that the recovered loots were save with the government.

“Since we launched the whistle blower policy, we have received immeasurable support from Nigerians.

“Yes, there is monetary reward for any information that leads to recovery of looted funds, but from what we have seen, most of the Nigerians who have come forward with useful leads were driven by patriotism rather than reward.

”Nigerians, fired by a fervid resolve to help banish corruption from their country, have daily inundated the offices of the appropriate government agencies with valuable information.

“We have been told how looters have resorted to burying stolen funds in their backyards, in deep forests and even in burial grounds.

”Thanks to whistle-blowers, it is now clear that a rapacious few have pillaged the nation’s wealth through a vicious orgy of corrupt practices,” he said.

The minister, however, noted that more funds were in the possession of looters than were available to government at all levels.

He added that the government will not abolish the whistleblower policy for any reason.

He also said the government will soon give account of all loots recovered.

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