Nigeria: $30 Billion Not Missing From Excess Crude Account - Okonjo-Iweala

27 December 2014

The Minister of Finance, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, has denied that $30 billion is missing from the Excess Crude Account as alleged by Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State.

"The widely published comment by Gov. Adams Oshiomhole alleging that 30 billion dollars is missing from the Excess Crude Account is shocking and totally untrue," a spokesperson for the minister, Paul Nwabuikwu, said in statement Saturday.

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