{"id":38331,"date":"2015-05-04T16:39:32","date_gmt":"2015-05-04T15:39:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=38331"},"modified":"2015-05-04T16:39:32","modified_gmt":"2015-05-04T15:39:32","slug":"i-never-threw-pricewaterhouse-under-the-bus-says-okonjo-iweala","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/i-never-threw-pricewaterhouse-under-the-bus-says-okonjo-iweala\/","title":{"rendered":"I never threw Pricewaterhouse under the bus says Okonjo-Iweala"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1430748985144_23965\" class=\"base-card-body\" style=\"color: #000000;\">\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1430748985144_23964\" class=\"msg-body inner  undoreset\" tabindex=\"0\">\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1430748985144_23963\" class=\"email-wrapped\">\n<div id=\"yiv0658467473\">\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1430748985144_23962\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1430748985144_24022\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1430748985144_24017\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1430748985144_24019\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1430748985144_24018\" style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Finance minister, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, has denied claims she denied any knowledge of the assignment of Pricewaterhouse Coopers.<\/strong><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong style=\"font-weight: bold;\">\u00a0She said she \u00a0has not \u201cdisowned\u201d audit firm Pricewaterhouse Coopers as has been claimed in some media reports.<\/strong><\/div>\n<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1430748985144_23961\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">.According \u00a0to statement by her spokesman, Paul Nwabuikwu \u201cContrary to reports by Premium Times and some other media, the Coordinating Minister for the Economy and Minister of Finance, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has not disowned PriceWaterHouse Coopers, the international audit firm which carried out the recent audit of the alleged unaccounted for $20 billion,\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThis is because the forensic audit was actually proposed by Dr Okonjo-Iweala as the best way to get to the truth following the disagreement (and widely conflicting figures) between former CBN Governor (and current Emir of Kano) Malam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi and the NNPC over Sanusi\u2019s allegation of unaccounted for funds.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cHer proposal was accepted by President Goodluck Jonathan as well as the Senate, and the President subsequently directed the Auditor General of the Federation to lead the work. The Auditor-General later appointed PwC to carry out the audit.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Nwabuikwu said the minister\u00a0\u201crespects the process which produced the audit\u201d but added that\u00a0\u201crequesting the audit is of course not the same thing as hiring the auditor\u201d.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThis was why we made it clear in our last press release that the suit filed against Dr Okonjo-Iweala before a Lagos High Court by SIAO Partners alleging that she appointed PwC to carry out the audit is frivolous and uninformed.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"base-card-clear\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finance minister, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, has denied claims she denied any knowledge of the assignment of Pricewaterhouse Coopers. \u00a0She said she \u00a0has not \u201cdisowned\u201d audit firm Pricewaterhouse Coopers as has been&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27381,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exclusive"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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