obailala:
Well I dont think NOI has done anything wtong in this one... she sourced for funds, got an approval from the president and she realeased the funds to the NSA.

However in order to forestall any future flimsy accusations, it would be bice if NOI just prepared a comprehensive register of all approvals she have for fund disbursements. It's obvious that everything about the way government was run was shrouded in undue secrecy, you cant blame people for wagging their tongues and throwing accusations around when they keep seeing details of fund movement without records of what the funds were used for.

blazetitov:
Some Nigerians are just funny. A minister or president does not have the power to spend any funds not budgeted for. That money should have been paid into the federation account and a supplementary budget sent to the NA for approval.

GEJ and NOI should be ashamed of themselves especially the so called Harvard graduate who oversaw the looting of the country's wealth.

She should save her defence for EFCC because they will soon be knocking on her door.

GoodGovernance:



Hellooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo........!


Explaining why you did something does not make what you did appropriate!

The constitution of the country remains sacrosanct.You cannot divert government revenue unconstitutionally without proper appropriation and approval by the national assembly!

Berrylite:
The expectations of everyone over NOI, being a Harvard graduate was cut short. She couldn't live upvto her certificate, thus the accusations and counter accusations against her....
In short, she really messed up

DecemberIV:


NOI goofed by seeking Jonathan's approval funds that were not appropriated (despite knowing it was wrong) by the National Assembly. Its that simple.

Lets even ignore the fact that she irresponsibly and expressly washed her hands off the monitoring of the funds.

Excerpts from the letter she wrote to Jonathan;

“This letter is to seek your approval to borrow these funds, for now, to disburse to the NSA. These funds form part of the projected Federal Government Independent Revenue, to be appropriated, in the light and for accountability, given the peculiar nature of security and intelligence transactions, we would expect the NSA to account to Your Excellency for the utilisation of the funds,” she concluded.

http://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/194870-how-jonathan-okonjo-iweala-illegally-diverted-n61-4-billion-abacha-loot-to-nsa-sambo-dasuki.html

Uwaomapaul:
go and get sense, what of Buhari that said any money recover from looted found will go to Women Affairs, is that in the budget he presented to NA as a CnC he has right to use the money for Nigeria problem.

Promhize:


"Following the discussions and based on the urgency of
the NSA’s memo, Dr Okonjo-Iweala requested the
President to approve the transfer of the requested amount
to the NSA’s Office for the specified purposes."

Now I know you have comprehension issues, "request the president to approve" not "request for permission to approve".

Seems you just learnt about the word "repugnant"

doctokwus:

So part of the work of the finance minister is to approve extra budgetary expenditures.
Sometimes it's repugnant hailing from the same country with people like u.

NOIConnect:


https://www.naij.com/662414-okonjo-iweala-opens-illegal-diversion-abacha-funds.html

Bevista:
An important issue has not been addressed by that response: Was the Funds budgeted for or was it extra-budgetary expenditure? If there was genuine need to use the funds, why not approach the National Assembly to inform them that there has been an inflow of funds and that they should approve for it to be used to combat terrorism.

I am seriously beginning to think NOI was indeed complicit in most of the corrupt transaction that happened during the last administration.

feldido:
They think this woman is Naive like them... She knows what she's doing.
She's not shaking, no matter what they try to do.

bokohalal:
Did she know that the National Assembly must approve the spending?

Holak:
National Assembly only approves budgets which was done. They don't approve particular sources of funds that should be used for that fund. Nothing amiss on the part of NOI except for propaganda purposes.

doctokwus:
Another over rated ph.D holder giving another uttely repugnant defence to cover her crass incompetence and complicity in the ra pe of our national treasury.

nutarious:
Depends on the way we see it(angle), if u see it from party partisan view then u will wanna defend or attack Nov. But if we all sit back and reason casting away tribal and political sentiment then we could reason well.

I don't see anything good that can come from IMF, personally, I Beleive NOI is more loyal to IMF than her nation.

She said a Commitee was setup, and the commite reached an agreement, this whole arrangements was funny, for nsa and her dept to be part of the commite is absurd.

Between the 6 years in total of GEJ rule, she has always been lieing to us in regards the economy. There is a way she brand her addresses that one would easily fall victim of her academia hypnosis. As of the time she left Nigeria was already bankrupt, now people will argue that it was oil sales that went down, but as a coordinating minister, she was there while money was been siphoned and she never said a thing. I personally don't trust her based on lots of failures and secrecy.

Lastly, after the abacha loot was siphoned to NSA, GEJ administration still went to further borrow 1billion dollars towards election and she Was still the coordinating Minister. If anyone Beleive this woman then it could only be for tribal or party reasons. She is an embarrassment to this country, what does her profile profit us? She led supported the most corrupt GEJ in democracy in Nigeria and we won't forget that.

Now tell me of Patriots and DORA Akunyili comes to mind, may God bless her soul.

NOIConnect:


https://www.naij.com/662414-okonjo-iweala-opens-illegal-diversion-abacha-funds.html

Promhize:
Apc keeps on throwing useless allegations around with nothing to show for it

Promhize:


What is repugnant and incompetent about the bolded? You need to learn the meaning of words before you use them.

You think big words will supersede superior reasoning accompanied by facts?!