Money looted from Nigeria in corrupt practices and laundered through the UK should be used to help save the lives of thousands of children at risk of starvation in the conflict-hit north-east of the country, a leading aid organisation says. “Large sums of illicit finance from Nigeria are laundered through banks and the property markets in the United Kingdom,” it says. “It is difficult to think of any project more deserving of support against this criterion than the humanitarian effort in north-east Nigeria,” said Save the Children. The government estimates that $1.2bn is needed in north-east Nigeria for next year. Kevin Watkins, chief executive of Save the Children, urged the world to prevent what happened in Somalia in 2011 from happening again in north-east Nigeria.

Source: The Guardian December 02, 2016 00:01 UTC