A civil society group,
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, has told the Minister of
Finance, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, to explain to Nigerians the whereabouts 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 N30tn “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 whereabouts of the said money as it “represented some accrueable
income to the Federal Government in the past four years.”
It said in line with the Freedom
of Information Act, “your ministry has a legal duty to render account on the
missing N30tn to the beneficiaries (Nigerians) of the trust, if and when called
upon to do so.”
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