The Edo State Governor in a statement on Thursday said the questions he asked were: how come those accruals into the Excess Crude Account got depleted without the knowledge of the National Economic Council?
The statement read in part
‘BLACKMAIL Won't HELP Your CASE, OSHIOMHOLE TELLS OKONJO-IWEALA
It is instructive at this point in time to state categorically without equivocation that there
is nothing “personal” between Okonjo-Iweala and Comrade Adams Oshiomhole in terms
of the request by the Edo Governor that Okonjo-Iweala should come clean on the issue
of revenue that accrued to the Excess Crude Account.
As much as her Spokesman tries to dramatize his response in defense of his boss, he
has shown a manifest uninformed disposition to issues of simple economics of naira
and kobo.
Here is a former Minister who has changed her position four times in the last forty days;
each position exposing her dubiety of facts and inherent contradictions in the concocted tales she has been weaving on one simple issue: what happened to the $2.1b ECA funds?
PERTINENT QUESTIONS.
The simple questions which the Comrade Governor asked were: how come those
accruals into the Excess Crude Account got depleted without the knowledge of the
National Economic Council? How come monies that were supposed to accrue into the
said account cannot be found in it going by the balance sheet provided by the former
Minister?
How come the Minister unilaterally dipped her hand into the Excess Crude Account to
spend money in defiance of the constitution and the laws of the land? How come that
the Minister finds it convenient to publish allocations to States and Local Governments,
but refused to publish accruals into the same account for us to know the status of the
account at any point in time; how much was left from where she was distributing from?’
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