“This is completely untrue. In the
first place, I understand the laws of money laundering. And it is a
criminal offence.
The central bank is the chief regulator charged with
ensuring we put an end to money laundering. “This is partly why we
started our cashless Nigeria project and why I started the BVN
project. I would never authorise that amount of cash to be moved to the
office of the NSA or to anyone even if it was in their account.
I do not know where they are getting
these strange stories. I was removed from the CBN in February 2014, and
to the best of my knowledge, the EFCC is probing disbursements
allegedly made made in late 2014 and early 2015 before the general
elections, if indeed they happened.
I find it difficult to believe that
this could happen in the CBN that I know but we have to wait and see
what the investigations come out with. Certainly whoever is linking me
to this did not even bother to look at the dates of the alleged
transactions. I know nothing about them, period.
We never gave cash to anybody. If we
did we disclosed it in published accounts under CSR. Our interventions,
be this to educational institutions or security services, took the form
of clearly identified projects or specified procurement, done through
well laid-down procedures, including competitive bidding, award of
contracts, and collection of no-objection certificate from the due
process office. We did not give cash to anybody.
The total amount disbursed by the
CBN on capital projects in my five years was N55 billion. And this
included contracts for CBN branches and our CSR interventions mainly in
the universities and secondary schools. How can anyone suggest that we
gave N40 billion to ONSA?”
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