Former Minister of Education,
Dr. Obiageli Ezekwesili has challenged officials of the Federal Government to a
public debate following the government’s rebuttal to her comments alleging that
the governments of Presidents Umaru Musa Yar’Adua and Goodluck Jonathan,
squandered $67 billion (about N10.6trn) in foreign reserves.
Minister of
Information, Mr Labaran Maku who addressed a press conference in Abuja on
Sunday described Ezekwesili’s allegation as “outlandish and clearly
fictitious.”
Maku also said the
damning verdict passed on the education sector by Mrs Ezekwesili was a
self-indictment, as she presided over the sector for 10 months without making
any positive impact on it
Countering Maku, the
former minister, Mrs Ezekwesili said, “I Challenge them to a public debate of
facts regarding 2007 Excess Crude Account (ECA) and foreign reserve and last
five and half years oil revenue”.
Also writing on twitter
on Sunday in messages prefaced with the declaration, “Nothing but
Accountability”, Ezekwesili said: “In 2007, the incoming Administration was
handed $45Billion in Foreign Reserve plus $22Billion. Nothing but
accountability: Let Mr. Maku go further. As a citizen all I want to know is the
Mathematics of the ECA and the Foreign Reserve. Nothing but accountability: I
demanded accountability and that’s all a citizen asks of government. I will not
stop asking for accountability.”
Source Vanguard
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