Nigeria: New Automotive Policy - CSNAC Petitions Okonjo-Iweala

22 January 2014

As the government prepares to implement a new auto policy that may see an increase in the tariff paid on imported vehicles up to 70 per cent, a coalition of ant-graft organisations has asked the government to provide evidence on how it spent the auto levy it collected for the last 10 years.

The coalition, Civil Society Network Against Corruption, CSNAC, has issued a Freedom of Information, FOI, request to the Minister of Finance, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, to provide details of how the Automotive Council levy collected from 2003 to 2013 was utilised.

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