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Ramon Oladimeji
A human rights bunch, the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, has required a test of the Ministry of Finance covering the period amid which it was going by Mrs. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala.
The gathering said the test got to be imperative in perspective of the data given to the World Bank by Okonjo-Iweala on how the repatriated plunder from the late military ruler, Gen. Sani Abacha, was spent.
In an announcement on Sunday by its Executive Director, Adetokunbo Mumuni, SERAP said it had gotten a 700-page report from the World Bank, wherein Okonjo-Iweala was cited to have said that the repatriated Abacha plunder was spent on streets, power, training, wellbeing and water somewhere around 2004 and 2005 over the six geopolitical zones of the nation.
As per SERAP, Okonjo-Iweala told the World Bank in a letter dated January 9, 2005 that N65bn of Abacha plunder was repatriated from Switzerland out of which N10.83bn was spent on wellbeing; N7bn on training; N6.2bn on water; and N21.7bn on power.
The ex-clergyman was said to have included that a portion of the assets were spent on new and progressing venture ventures and that significant government services had the points of interest of the spendings.
In any case, SERAP, which asserted that "there is no confirmation of such ventures, as a great many Nigerians keep on going on dead streets, while they keep on lacking access to sufficient power supply, water, wellbeing and quality instruction," said President Muhammadu Buhari must test Okonjo-Iweala's association in the spending of the repatriated Abacha plunder.
SERAP said the exposure by the World Bank was in light of an entrance to data demand it made to the President of the World Bank, Jim Yong Kim, on September 21, 2015.
As indicated by the gathering, aside from the 700-page archive it got from Ann May of the World Bank Access to Information Team, it likewise got a letter dated 24 November 2015 from the Director of the World Bank in Africa, Mr. Rachid Benmessaoud.
The gathering said it is as yet examining the records to check whether they contain data that Nigerians might want to know.
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