₦airaland Forum

Former President Jerry John
Rawlings has rejected claims
that he received $5 million
from former Nigerian
President Sani Abacha. Mr.
Rawlings while speaking to
the Guardian Newspaper
admitted receiving the money
from the president of Nigeria
but said it was $ 2million and
not $5million as alleged.
Mr. Rawlings was alleged to
have indulged in some
corrupt practices in 1998
when he received an alleged
$5 million from Abacha.
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Rawlings“When General
Abubakar took over, I told
him to watch out.
That report in the papers
about $5million was $2million
and not $5million. He didn’t
make any comment. He didn’t
say anything. Obasanjo took
over I thought I should
straighten it out with him.
The comment he made was:
‘Yes, that is how they
behave.
When they are given
something to take
somewhere, they will take
the majority, the bigger
share.’ That was the
comment Obasanjo made,” he
said “I wasn’t used to those
things. Otherwise, I could
have called Abacha.
I don’t even think I even
called him over that. Maybe I
should have called him to
say thank you for the $
2million and then he would
have called his people to
order. You see what I mean?
I wasn’t used to money
being thrown up and down.
Money was not my thing.
Yes, we were poor enough
as a country, but we were
working day and night to
making sure we put the
country on a solid foundation
for economic explosion.
We had our pride and our
dignity was not out for sale,”
he added. He spoke on other
issues about Ghana and the
African continent.

iflywithbuhari:
Abacha dashed you $2million, just like that. He dashed you our money, and people were starving in Nigeria. EFCC the fund retrievers should make sure you pay us our money back.

iflywithbuhari:
Abacha dashed you $2million, just like that. He dashed you our money, and people were starving in Nigeria. EFCC the fund retrievers should make sure you pay us our money back.

GoggleB:
And BUHARI said na PDP suck Nigeria dry.