Former
finance minister, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, has reacted to a call by senior lawyer,
Femi Falana, for her prosecution for crimes against humanity.
Mr.
Falana had written to the International Criminal Court urging the trial of past
and serving military and civilian Nigerian officials, indicted in an ongoing
investigation into the diversion of billions of money meant for purchase of
arms to fight Boko Haram.
“The
failure of a former Finance Minister, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala to prevent widespread
and systematic corruption including the re-looting of the Abacha loot amounts
to complicity under the Rome Statute, and therefore fits the legal requirements
of a crime against humanity,” Mr. Falana, a senior advocate of Nigeria wrote.
In
her reaction Monday, Mrs. Okonjo-Iweala dismissed the call as a “desperate joke
by an integrity challenged charlatan”.
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