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Dejo Osuolale, a retired assistant commissioner of police, says the President Muhammadu Buhari-led government would not be able to utilise recovered looted funds until the court says so.

Osuolale, now a member of the Osun state house of assembly, said this in Osogbo, the state capital, in an interview with NAN.

According to him, the funds are still exhibits and could not be spent until the court of law gives an approval.

“People are saying where are the fund recovered so far by the government, as a retired police officer, the funds are exhibits,” he said.

“Unless the cases are disposed of in court, the government cannot spend the recovered looted funds because it is only the court that can give the go ahead.

“And that is why people have to wait and see what happened at the end of the day.”

He lauded the current administration’s fight against insurgency, expressing delight that all the local government areas which were under the control of the insurgents had been recaptured, while people have started returning to their homes.

The lawmaker, however, said if the allocated funds for security during the previous administration was judiciously used, the fight against insurgency would now have become a thing of the past.