The embattled Minister of Women Affairs, Uju Kennedy-Ohanenye, claims she is being targeted by definite authorities cabals owed to her refusal to motion a $500 cardinal World Bank indebtedness request.
Recall that connected July 10, 2024, a near-physical confrontation was narrowly avoided betwixt Kennedy-Ohanenye and the House of Representatives Committee connected Women Affairs and Social Development astatine the National Assembly Complex successful Abuja.
The curate had appeared to code allegations of diverting N1.5 cardinal meant for paying contractors. …CONTINUE READING
In a telephone interrogation with THISDAY, Minister Uju Kennedy-Ohanenye revealed that she refused to motion a $500 cardinal indebtedness and a erstwhile $100 cardinal loan, claiming these loans see a 40% kickback for World Bank unit successful Nigeria disguised arsenic consultation fees.
She asserted that her beingness is astatine hazard owed to her refusal, alleging that these fiscal practices are portion of wherefore she is being targeted by the National Assembly and different entities.
Kennedy-Ohanenye criticized the misuse of specified ample sums for trivial purposes and emphasized her tendency to instrumentality plans that would genuinely payment the people.
The curate stated, “There is simply a $500 cardinal indebtedness that was meant to beryllium signed by me, but I refused to sign. There was besides a lawsuit of $100 cardinal earlier arsenic well. Find retired what it was meant for.
“All the loans they collect, including World Bank loans, etc, are you alert that the aforesaid World Bank unit successful Nigeria takes backmost 40 per cent and calls it consultation fees?
“These are things you radical should look into. You radical should absorption connected wherever the occupation is and fto them permission maine alone.”
She added: “Now my beingness is astatine involvement due to the fact that I refused to motion the $500 cardinal loan. Let maine archer you, if I motion that indebtedness today, I americium entitled to 5 per cent of the money, but I refused to motion it. It is portion of wherefore the National Assembly and each of them are aft me.
“And that 40 per cent they instrumentality is simply a secret, I recovered it out. Why should anybody springiness america a indebtedness and you inactive nonstop america however to usage the loan, and you instrumentality 40 per cent and supply america with a advisor that volition instrumentality it, and they volition instrumentality it?
“I told them $100 cardinal is excessively overmuch to usage to thatch our women however to prevention money, we tin thatch them, fto them bring the $100 cardinal and springiness it to those women and usage it to cognize what to bash with their lives.
“Let maine bash things that would interaction lives of the people. I made definite that the enactment plan.”
