The Coordinating Minister for the Economy and Minister of Finance, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, on Tuesday said she would no longer reply the former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Prof. Charles Soludo, over claims that that N30 trillion was stolen under her watch.

Okonjo-Iweala said this while responding to questions on a radio programme on Raypower.

She, however, advised Nigerians not to be deceived by the misinformation by some politicians in the country.


When asked to comment on the alleged missing N30 trillion, the finance minister said: “This is part of the packaged lies that Nigerians must avoid. I don’t want to enter into that debate, we have answered him (Soludo) and I don’t want to join issues with him because you don’t join issues when things don’t make any sense.”

She explained that the forensic report on the alleged unremitted oil revenue by the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) that was submitted to the presidency by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC) on Monday was never under her ministry, contrary to the insinuations by some members of the public.

“There is a lot of misinformation that is being put out and it is sad for me. I have not been controlling the audit, it is the Auditor General. Nigerians have been misinformed. They left out the fact that the Auditor-General was in charge of the report.


“I was only interviewed for it and there was no way I could be in charge, but some people decided to paint it as if I was in charge of the report and that is very unfortunate.


“It is part of the packaging and misinformation in this politics, and it has to stop because Nigerians cannot be continuously deceived,” the minister said.

Responding to a question on if the country is broke, Okonjo-Iweala reiterated that 2015 is going to be a “very tough year,” adding that: “This question of the economy is broke has been going on for four years now.

“People in the opposition have tried to package this and they have been saying this because they just wish the economy will be broke because they want to get Nigerians alarmed.

“They want to make them feel hopeless about the economy. But Nigerians cannot be deceived. All these three years that they have been saying that the country is broke, has the economy not been running?

“Now they saw that oil prices are falling and they are holding on to that. I have been very clear in saying that it is going to be a difficult year for the country, but this is something we can manage.”

Continuing, she said: “The other story going around is that we are not able to pay salary. In December, the reason why salary took so long was because the payroll system we are using actually locked out some agencies when they tried to pay more people that are not in the system. The system locked out 14 agencies and we had to restore them for payment manually.

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Swit maama na so.

Silence is the best answer to......

GEJ till 2019

Silence is the best answer to a fool and soludo is just looking for relevance.

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The kind money these people dey mention fit crash my fone ooo

Way to go ma'am. Don't allow yourself to be distracted from the task of making our economy one of the best in the world. Soludo, calm down and learn how it's done. Inugo?

By the time this woman retires, that is when we'll all know the evil she has been committing in that ministry! Manage what? abeg she'd better stop all that!

Meanwhile, Vote General Muhammadu Buhari for President!

eaglechild:
Silence is the best answer to......

GEJ till 2019

fool

Truth is really bitter.

Sorry o madam Ngozi!



God bless Charles "the solution" Soludo.

obamartins:
Silence is the best answer to a fool and soludo is just looking for relevance.

soludo is a perfect liar. the woman should not even bother about him.

if someone accused me wrongly, I will reply so people won't ve bad notion about me, but if i truly did what am accuse off, I will behave like okonjo

in one word, okonjo proof soludo wrong or you are chairwoman of thievery corporation, pilfering organisation and looters club

No Mrs. You will ooo. I know Soludo has something He will still tell us after elections.
Hear me Soluboy, go get some hot ORIGIN for yourself and chill while you unleashe your eye opening loopholes of our present leaders. Obj inclusive.

NEMESIS

When Buhari becomes the president, you have a lot to explain to the people you must talk by fire by force.....

So says a lazy and incompetent woman who presented a budget proposal ,containing train ticket allocations for nigerian diplomats , in an African country without a rail system.

Nice response there Madam.

Don'y mind the Yeye Professor, he should submit his CV for consideration if he's looking for a job.

Awon Smellows.

Jonathan Till 2019.

Lobatan.


Hahahahahahahaahhahahahahahaha

Madam big lips


Soludo raised salient points, account for the alleged sums or forever be tagged a deceitful jezebel of a 'co-ordinating' minister


#Vote4GMB/PyOFeb14

Soludo kept quiet when sanusi was exposing oceanic bank and intercontinental.

Now election is near,he is advocating for appointment indirectly.

eaglechild:
Silence is the best answer to......
GEJ till 2019

ds case require more Dan silence. its Nigeria treasury we ar talking about. not okonjo personal money

holatin:
if someone accused me wrongly, I will reply so people won't ve bad notion about me, but if i truly did what am accuse off, I will behave like okonjo

in one word, okonjo proof soludo wrong or you are chairwoman of thievery corporation, pilfering organisation and looters club

same way buhari have replied about his certificate and even produce his original certificate..did u see how a hypocrite u are?

A prophet is never valued at home. I blame the freedom of speech. Well said madam, do not honour him with a reply. We know their strategies and know for sure, they will be exposed.

Economic terrorist

NOI don chop humble pie & hiding her face behind one finger, instead of beating about the bush why not come out with facts & figures to dispute Soludo's claims or better still a debate will lay the issues to rest.

beejaay:
same way buhari have replied about his certificate and even produce his original certificate..did u see how a hypocrite u are?

what is this one saying ?they say he didn't ve a certificate and he provide his exam number, do you still want his school sandal or socks.

keep spewing trash while GEJ and his goons sell Nigeria and collect receipt.
instead of you mind about the country finance and economy, you talking about certificate that wount add to your life nor subtract from it

Who thinks Stealing is not Corruption?

Who sent 75,000 soldiers to Osun state for election but sent 30,000 soldiers to fight Boko Haram?

Who goes abroad for treatment at every opportunity and still tells us he has made progress in the health sector?

Who has not prosecuted any single corrupt official since he assumed office?

Who has received the highest amount of money ever from the sale of crude oil in Nigeria and yet has nothing to show for it?

Who does his normal duties as a president and celebrates it as transformation?

Who put his kinsmen who are the original crude oil thieves to watch over the same crude oil for Nigerians?

Who keeps promising the same thing without acting for the past six years?

Who is trying to please Nigerians at the last minute?

Who is going back to Otueke in May 2015?

Do not waste your vote
The need for a CHANGE! in government cannot be overemphasised.
Vote for Change!

It is obvious there is so much truth in the facts and figures quoted by Professor Soludo which the FG cannot even reasonably defend.
What I still don't understand is why some Nigerians who after knowing the truth will still support this government. It baffles almost to the point of tears.
Is it that we just don't want our country to move forward or what?

The need for a CHANGE! In government cannot be overemphasised. It is not about PDP or APC or GEJ & Buhari, it is just about a change in government

So who would you reply then?

Obi Ezekwesili challenged you to a debate about the poor state of the Nigerian economy, you won't reply her.

Sanusi challenged to a debate on the massive stealing of oil receipts under your watch, you won't reply him.

Now prof. Soludo is challenging you to a debate on missing/unaccounted for/missappropriated N30 trillion and the poor state of the Nigerian economy, you won't reply him also.

And someone will tell us that it is Buhari that is scared of debates.

NOI hasn't brought to bear her academics' ingenuity. Why is NOI manipulating NBS figures. Her days r numbrd.
SAI GMB/PYO

Silent means consent.

AnusOdourInhaler:
Economic terrorist

lol

mumumugu:
Soludo kept quiet when sanusi was exposing oceanic bank and intercontinental.

Now election is near,he is advocating for appointment indirectly.

Don't mind Soludo. His 'consolidation' experiment in the banking sector left many bankers without jobs and without homes.

May God forgive him..