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Popular human rights activist, Femi Falana (SAN), has called on former minister of finance and coordinating minister of the economy, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, to apologise for lying to Nigerians over the illegal withdrawal of the sum of $2 billion from the Excess Crude Account (ECA).

According to Falana, having admitted that the withdrawal of the sum of $2 billion by her was authorised by President Goodluck Jonathan and not by the Federation Accounts Allocation Committee (FAAC) as she had previously claimed, she ought to apologise to Nigerians.

The Lagos lawyer, who made this demand in a press statement he issued in Lagos yesterday, also said that the former minister should stop denying her “principal role in the gross mismanagement of the neo-colonial economy of the country and take responsibility for her actions instead of resorting to shifting blame”.

He noted that the Edo State governor, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, recently alleged that Mrs Okonjo-Iweala unilaterally approved the withdrawal of the sum of $2billion from the Excess Crude Account (ECA) “without authorisation, and that in her reaction, the former minister had claimed that it was “false, malicious and totally without foundation”, asserting that the withdrawal of the fund was “approved” by the Federation Accounts Allocation Committee (FAAC).

Falana, however, stated that following the categorical denial of her claim by the FAAC, Mrs Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, recanted and shifted the blame on former President Goodluck Jonathan for the controversial withdrawal of $2billion from the excess crude revenue account (ECA) in December 2014.

“In denying the mismanagement of the economy, the former coordinating minister of the economy stated that the payments made were used for paying for petroleum subsidies for the Nigerian people and were approved by Mr. President.”

“Assuming without conceding that the release of the whopping sum of $2billion was approved by the President, is Mrs Okonjo-Iweala saying that funds belonging to the three tiers of government could be unilaterally withdrawn from the ECA by the federal government?

http://leadership.ng/news/446599/okonjo-iweala-must-apologise-to-nigerians-over-illegal-withdrawal-of-2bn-from-eca-falana

when it come to this woman,am speechless

No not only apologise to nigerians, but to you in particular oroforofo.

Saw it coming......

Will apology refund the missing money... Apology nt enof

This witch-hunt is losing steam in it's entertainment value.

Na person wey dey travel up n down go apologize abi Nigeria as a country can jst be so interesting atimes aswear

dis woman apologise?? am very sorry when IMF,WORLD BANK, UN etc are solidly behind her for crippling our economy. Dollar was fluctuating at N150 to N160 when she came in , when she was leaving it was around N220, nw $ is N232 as at last week( black market) chai!!!! nija don spoil.

She should apologise in prison.

Losing steam? Lamido and his sons are already chilling in prison until their trial date, Nyako and his sons just paid 1.3bn naira bail, Ohakim paid 340million naira for 340million naira fraud case....But Buhari has not even appointed EFCC chairman, Buhari is just testing the mic.. 1,2..testing...

Abeg wait o, this money wey dem talk say she illegally withdraw. She use the money buy things for herself? She buy private jet? How she take spend this money? In any case , okonjo iweala couldn't have uunilaterally approved any expenditure with recourse to state finance commissioners, governors or even the president. She does not have that kind of power

Such dumb old men in the janjaweeed party. Since they can't get GEJ to say he didn't authorize the sharing of ECA, you think u can get the lady to issue an apology in order to use it as evidence of her guilt in court?
You old men are lower than dumb.

Only an edioot will steal money from government simply to invite hyenas called nigerian state governors to share 100% of it. Only in Nigeria do kangaroos speak hausa.

She must be jailed. Why should she apologize, we no want her apologise. She shuld goto jail

Cjrane2:
Such dumb old men in the janjaweeed party. Since they can't get GEJ to say he didn't authorize the sharing of ECA, you think u can get the lady to issue an apology in order to use it as evidence of her guilt in court?
You old men are lower than dumb.

Five lines of words without any logic or making any sense.

I don't believe in apologies in this case only prosecution and jail time.

Will her apology make u feel better? Has jonathan denied asking her to withdraw d said money? Maybe wen buhari appoints u as d finance minister if u are lucky, u will ask him to make a press conference before u withdraw any money.

Na apology Naija go chop? smh. Madam kabu chic should be made to vomit that money, what nonsense.

efcc tinx

She can keep her apology, all we want is her prosecution.

How about the bailout that was used by Bubu to settle his APC cohorts for a job weldone