The Minister of Finance, Mrs. Kemi Adeosun, has dismissed a recent media report alleging that she wrote a “strongly-worded letter to the President” objecting to the payment of $16.9 million fees to two lawyers for the money recovered from the family of the late maximum ruler, Gen. Sani Abacha.
A statement signed by the Special Adviser on Media and Communications to the Minister of Finance, Oluyinka Akintunde, said “the minister had at no time written any letter to the President or any member of the Federal Executive Council (FEC) on the payment of lawyers for the Abacha recovery.”
She also refuted the report of controversy surrounding the Abacha recovery, disclosing that the sum of $322,515,931.83 was received into a Special Account in the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) on December 18, 2017 from the Swiss Government.
The statement said: “For the avoidance of doubt, there is no controversy concerning the recovery of the Abacha monies from the Swiss Government.”
