My US property not stolen wealth – Keyamo

The Minister of State for Labour and Employment, Festus Keyamo, has denied utilizing stolen funds to buy properties overseas.

This follows a trending video on social media, which confirmed a property in the USA, alleged to be linked to the Minister.

In response, Keyamo confirmed that the property was his, however said that he had bought it utilizing proceeds from his authorized observe.

The Minister defined that he had written to related authorities companies on March 6, 2019, informing them of the closure of his overseas account(s) and the repatriation of funds to the nation, which had been financial savings he had made as a non-public authorized practitioner and a property investor over a long time.

In an announcement on Twitter, Keyamo famous that he had posted the video of him exercising in entrance of the US property to bait these he referred to as “sore losers” on the final elections.

He went on to say that they’d fallen for the bait and that they assumed everybody would wallow in the identical ethical squalor as them.

The Minister’s assertion added that the overseas funds had been mendacity in his accounts earlier than he turned a Minister in 2019, and he later used them to buy the property.

He maintained that the acquisition of his properties overseas didn’t contain any unlawful funds, however moderately had been from legit sources.

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