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Former minister of Environment and current UN deputy secretary general, Amina Mohammed has denied reports about her involvement in a massive $300 million illegal exportation of African rosewood from Nigeria to China.

Mohammed was in hot water on Friday after the Environmental Investigation Agency released a documentary detailing the role the former minister played in signing thousands of backdated permits in January 2017 which were used to clear the illegal export into China.

Speaking to theCable, Mohammed said she instead spent her time at the ministry to battle Illegal exportation of Wood. She said;

“No permits were backdated or illegally signed by me. We are therefore appalled if any legally obtained or forged certificates were used by unscrupulous rosewood traders to circumvent exportation procedures,” she said.Not only do I decry fraud and corruption, we also categorically reject any allegations of corruption or coercion in our effort to better address illegal logging and exportation.

I categorically deny receiving any bribe. It has never been in my character. I never demanded neither did I collect any bribe, either cash or material".

She said the first thing she noticed after her appointment as a minister was the level of deforestation. She said;

"One of the first issues I had to deal with was deforestation. It was a huge concern as Nigeria was losing its forest cover at an alarming rate… For me, protecting the environment is sacrosanct. "

https://politicsngr.com/2017/11/11/amina-mohammed-speaks-300-million-scandal-denies-involvement/

The woman is too clean

Na wao so nobody wey no get enemy?

Chai...

so the can not FINGER you in peace again abi. issorite

OK ma.

Just that I don't believe you.

Don't worry ma!!!
We don't expect you to accept the accusation just like that...

We know who your boss is, we know who your colleagues are and above all ma, we know your party, all its members are saints.

Don't forget ma, the mansion at Ikoyi, instead of your party and your boss telling us who the owner of the mansion is, they just ordered the forfeiture of the mansion, instead of reward the whistle blower, they detained him and subsequently took him to the psychiatric hospital.

I just regret being born in Nigeria, maybe Niger or Togo would have been better options.

She is a thief but she never reach to the if that kind thief nah habaaa

Kai, BSS which way ?

Nigeria is cursed. no day they don't recover huge amounts of cash, What kind of a country is this for heaven's sake

$300 million... infact am living this country... lemme go and spend my own first

Otida

A woman of integrity. God bless you ma.

Lol. I don't understand. Was anyone expecting her to accept it?

Liar...

Don't worry you are a saint! You are in APC.

Don't mind the busybody pressmen nosing around

Corruption ended with GEJ and PDP

Madam are u sure, are u very so sure?? 300 million fuvcking dollars

But is she Lai Mohammed's wife

Baba but whay?

#Bringbackourmoney..Na only God go save u from this long throat people

They won't believe you because they already had their minds made up just as they acknowledge the legendary corruption of GEJ but that nobody should mention him

Before nko ,she will deny especially now that HSE has an international appointment but I don't believe her

fulani thief

voiceofthetruth:
Lol. I don't understand. Was anyone expecting her to accept it?

i tire o

Built2last:
OK ma.

Just that I don't believe you.

You don't even believe in yourself, so nothing new here.

EIA investigators are not playing they are even saying the deal benefitted boko haram, for this woman's sake hope she is innocent cos international people don't joke with corruption cases, you will be fired straight.

https://eia-global.org/reports/the-rosewood-racket

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nestic:
$300 million... infact am living this country... lemme go and spend my own first

This is 135th naira abi?

From the interview,I ask, How do you ban exportation for 3months and then sign CITES permits for the same given period?

She said she signed 2992 permits in one day,16th Jan which a quarter of it wasn't used by the exporters.How do you sign about 800permits that are not used since the ban dates Dec 31st 2016?

Good thing the case is closed since the UN sec gen is backing her fully.They have to take one for the team.Good for Nigeria too.

Or were you expecting her to come out and accept?

I don't even know which one is worse, Sodom and Gomorrah Or Nigeria?