Nigeria: 50 Questions for Ngozi

24 December 2013
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A person cannot dance well only one leg.  - South African proverb

The House of Representatives Committee on Finance invited the Coordinating Minister for the Economy, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala last week for a briefing on the national economy. According to reports, the Committee heard from the minister that she was unwell, but had answered their summons out of respect. Which was just as well, the Committee felt, because she can now take away the questions they had planned to ask her, all fifty of them, as homework, and submit written answers in two weeks. She would then appear before them in January next year to defend her answers. The minister requested to be given a verbal examination on the spot, assuring the Committee that she and her colleagues will not give haphazard responses to the questions. The committee insisted that it wanted written responses to its questions, and for good measure, reminded the minister that she was not in the Ministry of finance where her words were law, but in the House of Representatives where she had no say.

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