The Nigerian Presidency on Sunday described the 77 suspects on the list of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) for alleged internet fraud as a double damage on the image of Nigeria.

Reacting to the issue when he appeared on Sunday Politics, a live programme on Channels Television, the Senior Special Assistant to the president on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu said the Federal Government was working with the FBI and other international organizations to stop internet fraud.

Garba further described the 77 suspects on the FBI list as an embarrassment to the country and a slap on the faces of all Nigerians.

His words: “This is a double damage on every citizen of Nigeria. It is a big scar on all of us who go out of this country and are seen in this image that these our brothers have created.

“We will cooperate with international organizations, the government will generate and ask for new laws from the National Assembly and there will be new executive orders that will block some of these loopholes that are being exploited by some of our fellow countrymen to go out there and embarrass and blacklist the country.

“This administration will work with all nations around the globe to fight criminality. If Nigerians are involved in this thing, well, hard luck to them. The president will not stand in the way of the justice system.

“Every citizen that travels out of this country is expected to obey the laws of their host country. President Muhammadu Buhari is not the one to excuse Nigerians from the laws of countries in which they reside.

“Therefore you will expect a more vigorous engagement with the National Assembly. The laws will have to change; this has got to be tackled and if it will take executive orders, this will be strengthened very rapidly.”