Tuesday 3 February 2015

SERAP wants Minister of finance, Okonjo Iweala Probed Over Missing 30 Trillion Naira


 A civil society group, Social-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, has told the Minister of Finance, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, to explain to Nigerians the where about of the N30tn allegedly stolen under her watch.
The group, in a letter to the Minister on Monday, asked her to within 14 days, account for the alleged missing sum or face a legal action.
SERAP’s demand followed the allegation by a former Governor of  the Central Bank of  Nigeria, Prof. Chukwuma Soludo, that not less than Thirty Trillion Naira (N30) “had been missing or stolen or
unaccounted for, or simply mismanaged” under Okonjo-Iweala’s watch as the Minister of Finance.
In the letter signed by its Executive Director, Adetokunbo Mumuni, SERAP said Nigerians had the right to know the where about of the said money as it represented some accrueable income to the Federal Government in the past four years.”

It is said in line with the Freedom of Information Act, “your ministry has a legal duty to render account on the missing Thirty trillion Naira (N30) to the beneficiaries (Nigerians) of the trust, if and when called upon to do so.

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