Former Nigerian Head of State Gen. Yakubu Gowon has denied allegations leveled against him that he looted half of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) during his tenure of office.
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GhGossip.com reported a couple of days that, Gen. Gowon was accused of looting half of the CBN by a United Kingdom Member of Parliament Tom Tugendhat last Monday during a hearing of a petition against the Nigerian government at a committee meeting of the parliament.
The former Head of State who ruled the country from 1966 to 1975 in his reaction to the allegations stated he was disappointed and sad but he knows he’s innocent of the claims.
It is certainly surprising, and I am disappointed that a British parliamentarian could make such a statement without checking the facts of what he was saying.
I honestly was disappointed that such a remark is made.”
He also revealed he heard the news of the allegations over the internet via social media and insisted that there was nothing to hide and the record was there for the lawmaker and the British authorities to check.
The record of my service to the nation is there for everybody to see and even the British government itself, and I don’t know why somebody got the information to make such a very ridiculous statement.
I am disappointed with that one and I hope the British authority will do something to rightly bring that parliamentarian to order to check his facts before he makes such allegation because it is more or less an insult to the leadership of Nigeria and certainly an insult to me to say that I did something of the sort to take half of Nigeria’s Central Bank and I must have put it in a British bank.
So, he should check all the British banks to see whether any such thing has happened, and he (the UK lawmaker) will be surprised that I was not being held for money laundering.”
