{"id":41464,"date":"2015-08-25T07:11:07","date_gmt":"2015-08-25T06:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=41464"},"modified":"2015-08-25T07:11:07","modified_gmt":"2015-08-25T06:11:07","slug":"probe-me-if-you-want-i-am-ready-ngozi-tells-buhari","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/probe-me-if-you-want-i-am-ready-ngozi-tells-buhari\/","title":{"rendered":"Probe me if you want, I am ready \u2013 Ngozi tells Buhari"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Former Minister of Finance, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, on Sunday declared support for President Muhammadu Buhari\u2019s anti-corruption drive, saying she was ready to subject herself to an unfettered government probe of her two terms in office.
\nThe former Minister, who was reacting to media reports that she was planning to build a multi-million dollar Okonjo \u2013Iweala family hospital in Abuja, denied nursing any such ambition.
\nMrs. Okonjo-Iweala, who spoke through her spokesperson, Paul Nwabuikwu, described the report as \u201ctotally baseless\u201d, as \u201cthe alleged hospital is non-existent\u201d.
\n\u201cDr Okonjo-Iweala has a clean record of two terms in office,\u201d the spokesperson said. \u201cAs we have consistently maintained, she is not afraid of a transparent investigation of her two terms in office. She supports the anti-corruption drive in Nigeria. No one who has had the privilege of serving his or her country should feel too big to be investigated.
\n\u201cIt is this very issue of fighting corruption that brought her back in the first place and she has a track record of blocking corruption. It is ironic that it is those same corrupt people who are trying to tarnish her image,\u201d he said.
\nMr. Nwabuikwu denied the existence of any hospital owned by Mrs. Okonjo-Iweala\u2019s immediate family.
\n\u201cAnyone who is in doubt can go to Gwarinpa, Abuja where the hospital is allegedly located, or enquire from General Electric and Perkins + Will Global, the two organisations that were mentioned as Consultants to the project in the report as to whether the hospital has been built,\u201d Mr. Nwabuikwu said.
\nThe spokesperson, however, confirmed that Mrs. Okonjo-Iweala\u2019s husband, Ikemba Iweala, who retired recently as a neuro-surgeon and emergency physician with over 40 years\u2019 of practice in Nigeria, the United Kingdom and the United States, was actually planning a hospital.
\nTo actualize his desire to give back to Nigeria, Mr. Nwabuikwu said, Mrs. Okonjo-Iweala\u2019s husband had, for several years, been working on plans to establish a hospital in Abuja, using his savings to develop the concept and design of the hospital.
\nSo far, Mr. Nwabuikwu said, Mr. Iweala had made efforts to source for financing for the project, pointing out that it was the prototype design and website of the yet to be realized project that was being published as a multi-billion dollar evidence of corruption against the former minister.
\n\u201cWhy is Dr Okonjo-Iweala the object of this ceaseless campaign of falsehoods and distortions? The answer is simple: because she refused to steal and share, and because she blocked many powerful people, some of whom are now in power, from stealing. That is why they would go to any lengths to tarnish her name,\u201d the minister\u2019s spokesperson explained.
\nHe recalled that it was the former minister\u2019s fight against fuel subsidy scammers that led to her mother being kidnapped in 2012, followed with the demand for her to resign from government and leave the country.
\n\u201cThe hospital idea is still very much alive. Anyone who is interested should please come forward to discuss possible investment. But there is a condition: the money must be clean. Corrupt people, especially lying governors, need not apply,\u201d Mr. Nwabuikwu said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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