One of the chieftains of the All Progressive Congress, APC, Lauretta Onochie has reacted after the Government of the United States of America, USA, returned the sum of $52.88 million linked to the former Minister of Petroleum, Diezani Madueke.
According to VANGUARD, the US Ambassador to Nigeria, Mr. Richard M. Mills, Jr, led a delegation that executed the Assets Return Agreement at the Federal Ministry of Justice Headquarters in Abuja, on Friday.
However, Lauretta Onochie has now reacted after the report surfaced online. In a post that she shared on her official X handle, she said the money is approximately N79 billion.
Lauretta Onochie stated that the money could have been spent on building hospitals, employability skills for the unemployed, creche in the cities to support nursing mothers and renovation of roads across the country.
Here is what she wrote on her page;
“US government returns $52.88m linked to ex Petroleum Minister, Diezani Madueke. That is about N79,000,000,000”
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