Edo State Governor, Adams Oshiomhole has has faulted the operations and activities of the Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala in the last four years, stating that she fed Nigerians with half-truths.
He said the Minister’s recent outcry about oil marketers falsifying subsidy claims may be for the fear of the incoming President General Muhammadu Buhari. Oshiomhole who reviewed Nigeria’s economy in the last four years said Okonjo-Iweala ran the Excess Crude Account as a one-man show.
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“As the country transits from one democratic dispensation to another, there is no gainsaying the fact that the state of the nation’s economy is the focal point, especially with the unending fuel scarcity which is gradually grinding the nation to a halt. No doubt, the best person to explain the state of the economy today is Dr Okonjo-Iweala, Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy, whose management of the nation’s resources these past four years has elicited different reactions from Nigerians. “As a member of the National Economic Council, I had spoken out at different times at NEC meetings and even in public on the way the economy was managed under Dr Okonjo-Iweala. Again, I want to share my views with the public on some of the issues affecting the Nigerian nation. “Recently, Okonjo-Iweala has been all over the place, pointing in the wrong directions and blaming everybody but herself for the parlous state of the Nigerian economy. Coming after her deafening silence on the Pricewaterhouse Coopers, PwC, audit of Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, crude oil sales and receipts, which revealed massive abuse of public trust and stealing of our common patrimony in high places under her watch and the government she serves, it is quite intriguing that with barely few days left in office, she has suddenly woken up from her slumber to realise that oil marketers have been all along falsifying subsidy claims and defrauding the nation of billions of naira and dollars. “This latter day policy activism on her part deserves closer scrutiny and interrogation. Perhaps for fear of the incoming President, Gen. Buhari, come May 29, 2015, Dr. Okonjo-Iweala is now compelled to disclose to Nigerians that a cabal is holding the country and the government to ransom. Beside the abuse of the subsidy regime, we will insist that Dr. Okonjo-Iweala also comes clean on some other critical issues that demand accountability from her and her office.”
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Posted: at 28-05-2015 06:15 AM (9 years ago) | Addicted Hero
Deepsea81 at 28-05-2015 07:02 AM (9 years ago) (m)
See this Idiot mad Oshomole talk about the money that was shared to you from the excess crude oil account. None of the state governors so far has said anything to counter the claim means it's true. So, you should all shut your dirty mouth. If you are innocent speak about the money shared to you and tell the people how you spend their money sponsoring cultism in Edo state wasteful spending on trivial matters that the people did not benefit from. With the kind of money all the governors received from the excess crude account apart from security vote, usual money to run state every state in Nigeria should be as beautiful as Benghazi in Libya or even Tunis. Stupid thieves you still open you dirty mouth.
Posted: at 28-05-2015 07:02 AM (9 years ago) | Upcoming
Some of the money were shared to the states but most of the money were being mismanage and unaccounted for. Why is Okonjo Ngozi questioning the figure at this time which she has never question since 4 yrs?
Posted: at 28-05-2015 07:33 AM (9 years ago) | Gistmaniac
Its like Oshomole has just come out of honey moon, and felt compelled to say something. Dear Oshomole guess u had better start from explaining to Edo people what u did with what u got or better still go for another kposogno after which ur memory and reasoning will return to default.
Posted: at 28-05-2015 08:06 AM (9 years ago) | Upcoming
factfinding at 28-05-2015 08:34 AM (9 years ago) (m)
Well if she found wanting for mismanagement of Nigeria finance she should be held accountable, i am not supporting her for corruption nor will i ever support anybody to Loots....Steal....or Embezzled from Nigeria, she's not the only one if Buhari goes after her she will spill the beans and guess what will happen.
Posted: at 28-05-2015 08:34 AM (9 years ago) | Gistmaniac
freethinker at 28-05-2015 10:59 AM (9 years ago) (m)
BEFORE I HAD GREAT RESPECT FOR THIS MAN THINKING THAT HE WILL THE BEST GOVERNOR EVER COS OF HIS EXPERIENCE AS LABOUR LEADER, BUT HE FAILED WOEFULLY. ANOTHER TAI SOLARIN, HE WAS FIGHTING AGAINST GOVT, THEY LATER SHUT HIS MOUTH BY MADE HIM CHAIRMAN PEOPLE'S BANK
Posted: at 28-05-2015 10:59 AM (9 years ago) | Gistmaniac
People just open their mouth dey talk rubbish------is anyone accusing Okonjo Iweala of stealing Nigerian money------where is the proof? I do not blame them, it is because she was patriotic enough to take up the appointment. Oshiomole thinks that what Okonjo Iweala is doing is achieved by contesting election and being an aluta chairman. Ashawo governor without discipline, you won't face your problems------you all will be dissapointed eventually, only time will tell. All the criminals in Nigeria are now pointing accusing fingers on Jonathan and his cabinet, even Obasanjo, Danjuma, Amechi, Tinubu and his brothers all pots calling kettle black, I dey wait for the probe ----------hope they will start from 1960.
Posted: at 28-05-2015 03:40 PM (9 years ago) | Upcoming