YAKUBU GOWON REACTS TO STOLEN CBN FUNDS ALLEGATION BY BRITISH LAWMAKER
Former Nigeria’s head of state, General Yakubu Gowon, has reacted to an allegation against him by a British lawmaker of stolen have of CBN when he left Nigeria and moved to United Kingdom in 1975.
Tom Tugendhat, a British lawmaker, had made the allegation when he and his colleagues were debating a petition regarding the #EndSARS protest.
General Gowon, who told the BBC News Pidgin that he served Nigeria with utmost fear of God said his legacies were visible to everyone.
“What the MP said was just mere ridicule and I don’t know as to where he cooked up such statement. I served Nigeria as much as I could and my achievements during those years are available to everyone,” he said.
On Tuesday, British MPs passed a vote for UK’s government to sanction some Nigerian government officials were involved in brutalising EndSARS protesters.
The former head of state said he served Nigeria diligently and the record is there for everyone to see.
He added that he did not know who sponsored the lawmaker to make such allegation against him
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