{"id":77090,"date":"2020-11-30T13:02:50","date_gmt":"2020-11-30T12:02:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=77090"},"modified":"2020-11-30T13:02:50","modified_gmt":"2020-11-30T12:02:50","slug":"gowons-choice-property-in-london-exposed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/gowons-choice-property-in-london-exposed\/","title":{"rendered":"Gowon\u2019s Choice Property In London Exposed"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Checks by Pointblanknews.com have revealed that former Nigeria Head of State, retired General Yakubu Gowon, bought some choice property in the Greater London area shortly after he was sacked via a coup in 1975. He fled to the United Kingdom shortly after his ouster.<\/div>\n
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According to a title deed in the possession of Pointblanknews.com, one of the\u00a0properties\u00a0is at 32\u00a0BroadgatesAvenue, Hadley Wood, Barnet, Hertfordshire.<\/p>\n

Investigations also reveal that Gowon and his wife, Victoria bought some empty plots on that street where the current listing price is between\u00a0\u00a3950,000 and\u00a0\u00a31.5 million pounds for a\u00a06-room\u00a0detached house.<\/p>\n

Gowon was removed in bloodless coup led by late General\u00a0Muritala\u00a0Mohammed while he was away in Kampala, Uganda to attend the OAU meeting.\u00a0Gowon subsequently went into exile in the UK, where he later acquired a PhD in political science from Warwick University. His main British residence is on the border of north London and Hertfordshire.<\/p>\n

While he held sway as Nigeria\u2019s leader between 1966 and 1975, oil profitability was greatest during what was called the \u201cGolden Decade\u201d of the oil boom. Nigeria became the wealthiest country in Africa. Between 1958 and 1974, production rose from just over 5000 to 2.3 million barrels per day and government revenue increased from N200,000 to N3.7 billion. Within two years, state profit increased by almost 50%, to an all time high of N5.3 billion in 1976.<\/p>\n

Recently a British member of parliament\u00a0Tom Tugendhat (Tonbridge\u00a0and\u00a0Malling)\u00a0attacked Gowon.<\/p>\n

He said\u00a0\u201cWe need to call out the corruption, we need to use the powers that we have in this country to stop those profiting from the wealth of that great nation and hiding it here.<\/p>\n

During the debate on a petition on End SARS, Tugendhat accused him and the country\u2019s leaders of corruption.\u00a0He said he looted\u00a0half the Nigeria Central Bank at the end of his reign.\u00a0\u201c\u00a0Some\u00a0people will remember when General Gowon left Nigeria with half the Central Bank and moved to London\u201d<\/p>\n

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Gowon pushed back when he said \u201c\u201cWhat the MP said is rubbish. I\u00a0do not\u00a0know where he got that rubbish from, I served Nigeria diligently and my records are there for all to see.\u00a0I did not want to speak on this issue because people that know me know that what the MP said is not true\u201d he said<\/p>\n

The registered owners of the property on\u00a0BroadgatesAvenue, were listed as\u00a0Yakubu Gowon and Victoria\u00a0Hansatu\u00a0Gowon of 32\u00a0Broadgates\u00a0Avenue, Hadley Wood, Herts with Title number MX357472.<\/p>\n

According to The extract from Her Majesty\u2019s Land Registry \u201c.\u2018 the information on the extract are current on 14 May 2018 at 20 : 33. T OF 32 Title absolute (\u00a030.11.1976) PROPRIETOR: YAKUBU GOWON and VICTORIA HANSATU GOWON of 32\u00a0BroadgatesAvenue, Hadley Wood,\u00a0Herts.<\/p>\n

But in a series of tweets,\u00a0Femi\u00a0Fani-Kayode\u00a0described the allegation by the MP who provided no evidence as false<\/p>\n

He said\u00a0, \u201cWhatever you may say or feel about General Yakubu Gowon it is NOT true that he took half of Central Bank with him when he went on exile to the UK and studied at Warwick University after being removed in a coup by General Murtala Mohammed.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have my views about Gowon and what I consider to be his role in the mass murder and genocide of 3 million Igbos during the civil war and I have often expressed it but he was NOT a thief and neither did he amass wealth for himself when he was Head of State.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs a matter of\u00a0fact\u00a0he was the darling of the British Government & no Nigerian leader, living or dead, has been as close to successive British Governments as him.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis very young British MP is trying to revise history and\u00a0demonise\u00a0a man who served and protected British interests in Nigeria when he was in power more than any other and this is most dishonorable and unfair.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe truth is that the greatest looters in the history of humanity were the British themselves and their Empire enslaved, looted and pillaged entire nations and continents.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf he wants to\u00a0criticise\u00a0Nigerian leaders let him do so with facts and not fabricate lies in a scurrilous and essentially racist attempt to confirm the stereotyping of every Nigerian and African leader as being corrupt.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe truth is that even though they pretend and sweep it under the carpet, there are as many corrupt British leaders, government officials and public servants today as there are Nigerian and this has always been the case.<\/p>\n

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