Human rights legal counselor, Femi Falana has answered previous Minister of Finance, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala who on Monday Jan. 25, depicted him as an Intergrity Challenged Charlatan in an announcement she discharged. In an announcement discharged on Sunday January 24th, Falana had endeavored to connect Okonjo-Iweala to the $2.1 billion outrage, requiring her capture and indictment. Responding to Okonjo-Iweala's announcement, Falana yesterday in his own particular explanation, blamed her for accusing so as to rush to divert reactions anybody looking to consider her answerable for her 'shocking records' in government, of having ulterior political thought processes. The announcement to some extent peruses "At the point when Prof Chukwuma Soludo claimed that about N30tr couldn't be represented under her supervision he was depicted as "a disenthralled failure. At the point when confidant Adams Oshiomole scrutinized the unlawful withdrawal of $2bn from the Excess Crude Account, he was blamed for having ill will towards her since she had blocked Edo State from getting an advance. Along these lines, rather than trading obscene misuse with the previous Minister I should react to the diversionary assertions which cut her reaction and the endeavor to remove herself from the mass plundering of the republic under her supervision. The case that I am new to the command of the ICC demonstrates that Mrs. Okonjo-Iweala has not been taking after the act of the court and its dynamic and vigorous way to deal with its commands, specifically concerning the examination of violations in Darfur, the warrant of capture for Joseph Kony (Uganda), and the warrant of capture for Ahmad Harun, (Sudan). In numerous chose cases, the ICC has extended its order to helpful issues, went for hindering and obstructing the execution of violations which cause gross human rights misuse. There is literally nothing in the Rome Statute of the ICC to recommend that the court can't address exemption for gigantic money related violations (and its handicapping sway) which occurred while Mrs. Okonjo-Iweala was the Finance Minister and the Coordinating Minister of the economy. Dr. Okonjo-Iweala likewise guaranteed that my request against her to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) "were deficient in believability", with no substantiation of what this implies or particular reply of the affirmations contained in that appeal. She has however not precluded the precision from claiming the cases in my appeal. While the previous Finance Minister had demanded that just $500 million was recouped from the Abacha plunder my request nitty gritty the recuperation of $4 billion. As she couldn't challenge my case Dr. Okonjo-Iweala now says that the $500 million was the sum recuperated while she was the Minister of Finance under President Obasanjo. In making that claim she didn't take perception of her late explanation that while she gave out $322 million to Col. Dasuki the total of $700 million had been put aside for advancement. From her own particular record, over $1 billion was recuperated from the plunder under the Jonathan administration when she was organizing the economy. Dr. Okonjo-Iweala has kept on giving the mistaken impression that she rendered magnanimous support of the country. Be that as it may, while her partners who served as Ministers under President Olusegun Obasanjo were paid their pay rates and remittances in the nearby money she got hers in dollars regardless of a judgment of the Court of Appeal which had pronounced the installment unlawful and illegal on account of Fawehinmi v The President (2007) 14 NWLR (Pt 1054) 275. With a specific end goal to sob up notions Dr. Okonjo-Iweala alluded to the appalling grab of her 84-year mother, two years back. Yet, it is open information that the lumpen components included in the grab were captured by the Lagos State Police Command. From the report of police examination the criminals were royal residence watches who were motivated by sheer voracity. Truth be told, they were captured by the Police taking after the contradiction over the sharing of the N12 million payoff paid to them for the criminal endeavor. In the Appropriation Act of 2011, the entirety of N245 billion was planned for fuel endowment. Be that as it may, toward the end of the year, Dr. Okonjo-Iweala had approved the illicit installment of about N2.5 trillion to an intrigue of fuel merchants. Not surprisingly, she washed off her hands such as Pontius Pilate. With a specific end goal to uncover the stupendous misrepresentation I appealed to the EFCC and gave oral affirmation before the House of Representatives Committee which independently explored it. In the same vein, I have quite recently solicited the Group Managing Director from Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation under the Freedom of Information Act to give data on the disappointment of the NNPC to pay into the Federation Account the whole of $9.7 billion out of the $11.8 billion profits paid by NLNG from 2004-2014. I have just as requested data from the NEITI over its claim that the NNPC and some oil organizations are obliged to the Federal Government to the tune of $19.1 billion. Dr. Okonjo-Iweala's case that I possess the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) is unrealistic and absurd. A straightforward google hunt would have demonstrated her that while I am one of the lawful guides of the association, there are other exceptionally recognized legal counselors and scholastics of worldwide notoriety on SERAP's board. Her claim that SERAP is "ruin" is the careful inverse of foolhardy portrayal since it is an association that has won national and worldwide acknowledgments—including designation for the UN common society honor; the Ford Foundation Jubilee Transparency Award; and the Wole Soyinka Anti-Corruption Defender Award. It is my conviction that the recouped plunder ought to be directed towards work creation and infrastructural advancement. Hence, all hands ought to be on deck to guarantee that the recouped plunder is not criminally redirected by another arrangement of looters"the articulation read
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