ASABA POST NEWS-WIRE: Missing N30tr: Okonjo-Iweala blasts SERAP,

Monday, May 23, 2016

Missing N30tr: Okonjo-Iweala blasts SERAP,

takes legal action

Our attention has been drawn to media reports regarding a court judgment alleged to have been entered against the Federal Government of Nigeria and Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala in respect of an action by the Socio-Economic Rights Agenda (SERAP) pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act.

The High Court, according to the media reports, ordered the Federal government and Dr. Okonjo Iweala to provide information relating to N30 trillion Naira allegedly unaccounted for.

Please note the following:

- Dr Okonjo-Iweala hastens to state that she was never served with any court processes in relation to the said matter.

She has not read the judgment and would therefore defer any comments on the matter.

- However from the media reports, the case was instituted in February 2015 but was not served until July 2015 after Dr Okonjo-Iweala had already ceased to be the Minister of Finance.

- By the date the said papers were purportedly served Dr Okonjo-Iweala was no longer a public officer and could therefore not be the subject of a request for production of any documents or information under the Freedom of information [FOI] Act.

- The Court processes must have been served on others because the attention of Dr Okonjo-Iweala was never drawn to the matter in which she appears to have been sued personally.

She therefore did not engage any lawyer to act for her in the matter.

- The decision of SERAP to anchor its case on a baseless and unsubstantiated allegation by former CBN governor, Professor Charles Soludo that N30 trillion – about seven times the total annual budget during the Jonathan administration – is missing confirms SERAP’s dubious motives and its role as a tool for politically motivated actors.

- It is curious that the first time Dr Okonjo-Iweala is being made aware of a matter filed against her in court is in news reports reporting the delivery of judgment.

She has instructed her lawyers to take steps to set aside the judgment as it affects her.

Paul C Nwabuikwu

Media Adviser to Dr Okonjo-Iweala

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Man’s capacity for justice makes Democracy Possible, but Man’s Inclination to INJUSTICE makes Democracy NECESSARY…Reinhold Nie-Uhir

The Federal Troops murdered Innocent men, women and children in their thousands at Asaba. Asaba lost in few months university graduates, PhD holders… among them were Permanent secretaries, medical doctors, lawyers, teachers, professionals, clergy men and missionaries. It remains the only war and genocide of such magnitude without a monument of remembrance………United Nations Observer, Canadian M.P, Stephen Lewis, London Guardian, October 11, 1968.

The Federal Troops assumed that the people of Asaba were Igbos and gave support to OPERATION TOUCH…. The people of Asaba suffered more than any other southern tribe in terms of human and material losses. Chief Tayo Akpati, former secretary, petroleum trust fund, The Guardian, July 17, 1997.

Benin was the capital of the mid-western states with a high concentration of Asaba-born technocrats, bureaucrats, and professionals who met their untimely end at the hands of federal troops and other accomplices……there appeared a fleeting period of lunacy in which mid-westerners gladly identified Ahaba people to be shot down by federal troops on the so called liberation day in Benin…. It was the first Black On Black genocide in post independence Africa. Midwest Solicitor General, Giwa Amu, The Nigerian Obsrever, March 16, 1983.

The civil war was one of the worst and under reported event in Nigerian History, thanks to the “PATRIOTISM” of the Nigerian Journalists…..the result of the massacres… for most part were not to happen since there was a political consensus between the press and the politicians led by Chief Anthony Enahoro….a man who was part of both, He was the Nigerian war time minister of information. Lewis Obi, African Concord, Cover Story, The Asaba Massacre, August 4, 1997

The Ahaba Man became the most vulnerable Nigerian…. It required ten positive acts of loyalty to one of the rest of the nation to prove themselves human being. Ever since the Mid-western invasion, they (Ahaba People) had been hounded, killed and considered the greatest security risks than the rest Igbos. Noble Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, The Man Died.

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Monday, May 23, 2016

Missing N30tr: Okonjo-Iweala blasts SERAP,

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