Nigeria: Time to Impeach the President

16 December 2013

In the third quarter of 2012, Dr Olusegun Aganga, minister of trade and investment, wrote a letter to President Goodluck Jonathan over some missing $1.6 billion crude oil export. A copy of the letter was exclusively obtained by this newspaper and published on October 23, 2012. The minister's letter was entitled "Investigation into the discovery of a forged crude oil and gas export clearance permit no. CO/28/Vol. VIII/09 purportedly issued by the Federal Ministry of Trade and Investment to NNPC for the shipment of 24 million barrels of crude oil and gas in the third quarter (July to September 2012)".

Aganga wrote: "May I humbly inform Mr President that on Thursday, 4th October 2012, my office was alerted of the existence of an export clearance permit no. CO/28/Vol. VIII/09 purportedly issued by my office to NNPC for the export of crude oil and gas from Nigeria for the period covering the 1st July 2012 to the 30th September 2012. On a closer examination, it was discovered that one of the permits was not, in fact, issued by my office and may have been forged as it did not bear the security features that we had built into the original permit forms to prevent such forgeries."

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