"My Mother Was Kidnapped After I Uncovered Alleged Oil Subsidy fraud Of $2.4Bn" - Okonjo-Iweala

 

By Ambrose Amos 

The Director-General of the World Trade Organisation (@wto), Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala @NOIweala, has repeatedly claimed that her mother was kidnapped because she uncovered an alleged $2.4 billion oil subsidy fraud while serving as Nigeria’s Minister of Finance.

But serious questions remain unanswered. During her two terms at the center of Nigeria’s economic management (where she failed spectacularly), who exactly did she discover was responsible for this multibillion-dollar subsidy fraud? 

Which companies and individuals were implicated? Where are the audit findings, investigation reports and records of prosecution?

Okonjo-Iweala went on to publish a book, Fighting Corruption Is Dangerous, in which she portrayed the kidnapping as retaliation for her anti-corruption efforts. 

She also used the book to attack critics, including those of us who publicly challenged her failed economic policies and questioned her record.

But her book about corruption fighting back provided no evidence of who committed the alleged fraud and what happened to the money.

There is documented @PoliceNG evidence of the involvement of palace guards in her father's palace, relatives, and domestic workers in her mother's abduction. 

To date, those allegations are the subject of police investigations, prosecution records, and judicial findings. (Before anyone asks why I would rely on the account of the same Nigeria Police Force I frequently criticize, to my knowledge, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has neither publicly challenged the police's official account of her mother's kidnapping nor demanded a fresh, independent investigation to establish a different account of what happened.)

They cannot simply be accepted or dismissed without evidence, and @flacqua  of @BloombergTV ought to have done due diligence before swallowing @NOIweala fairytale hook, line, and sinker.

The central question remains, who stole the alleged $2.4 billion? Where are the audit findings? Who were the implicated companies and individuals? What became of the investigations? And, most importantly, what verifiable evidence establishes a direct connection between the alleged oil subsidy fraud and her mother's kidnapping?