Nigeria is demanding a retraction of the comment by a member of the United Kingdom parliament against former Head of State, Yakubu Gowon.
During a debate on EndSARS last Monday in the UK parliament, Tom Tugendhat accused Gowon of moving a half of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to London.
Tugendhat, a British Conservative Party politician, is the Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee.
The MP for Tonbridge and Malling regretted that some former and serving government officials had questionable monies and property in Britain.
According to him, “Our banks have been used for that profit and for that illegal transfer of assets. And that means the UK is in an enormous unique position to exert pressure on those who have robbed the Nigerian people.”
Gowon had, in his riposte in an interview with the BBC, called the claim “rubbish”.
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in a statement on Saturday by its spokesperson, Ferdinand Nwonye, described Tugendhat’s allegation as “outrageous and unsubstantiated.”
The statement said: “The Ministry of Foreign Affairs, through the Nigerian High Commission in London, immediately sought an apology and retraction of the unsubstantiated allegation from the British Government.”
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