A member of the United Kingdom (UK) parliament, Tom Tugendhat, has alleged that former Nigerian military head of state, General Yakubu Gowon (Rtd), stole half of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN).
While speaking at the parliament’s debate on Monday, November 24, on the recent controversial #EndSARS protest in Nigeria, Tugendhat alleged that Yakubu Gowon had stole the undisclosed amount of money while leaving office and moved to London.
Tugendhat revealed that some Nigerian politicians had made away with some huge amount of money from government’s coffers and moved to London to hide the loot.
He called on the UK Government to address the issue of corruption in Nigeria and use its power to stop the lootings taking place in the Giant of Africa country.
While Tugendhat enjoined the UK parliament and British Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, to stop corrupt Nigerian politicians from stealing public funds and hiding it overseas, he also made same plea to the UK Government to stop funding some corrupt Nigerian security agencies.
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