The sum of $954,000 stolen by a former Governor of Bayelsa State, Diepreye Alamieyeseigha has been returned by the United States Government.
The US Government returned the loot through the Federal Government, Newsonspot blog gathered.
The US Ambassador to Nigeria, Mary Beth Leonard, announced the news during a press conference in Abuja on Thursday afternoon.
She stated that the former governor’s official salary from 1999 until his impeachment in 2005 did not match the stated amount.
“However, during that time, he accumulated millions of dollars through abuse of office, money laundering,” she said.
Alamieyeseigha, 62, passed away in October 2015.
President Muhammadu Buhari has immediately directed that the said sum be utilised in developing the healthcare of Bayelsa.
In 2012, more than £5 million recovered from the funds stolen by him was handed back to the Bayelsa State government by British authorities.
The money, handed over to two government officials from Bayelsa State, who came to London for the transfer, was lodged in a Bayelsa State government account with the London branch of First Bank Plc.
