Speaking to Cable, Sanusi said:
“This
is completely untrue. In the first place, I understand the laws of
money laundering. And it is a criminal offence. The central bank is the
chief regulator charged with ensuring we put an end to money laundering.
“This is partly why we started our cashless Nigeria project and why I
started the BVN project. I would never authorise that amount of cash to
be moved to the office of the NSA or to anyone even if it was in their
account.
I do not know where
they are getting these strange stories. I was removed from the CBN
in February 2014, and to the best of my knowledge, the EFCC is probing
disbursements allegedly made made in late 2014 and early 2015 before the
general elections, if indeed they happened.
I
find it difficult to believe that this could happen in the CBN that I
know but we have to wait and see what the investigations come out with.
Certainly whoever is linking me to this did not even bother to look at
the dates of the alleged transactions. I know nothing about them,
period.
We never gave cash
to anybody. If we did we disclosed it in published accounts under
CSR. Our interventions, be this to educational institutions or security
services, took the form of clearly identified projects or specified
procurement, done through well laid-down procedures, including
competitive bidding, award of contracts, and collection of no-objection
certificate from the due process office. We did not give cash to
anybody.
The total amount
disbursed by the CBN on capital projects in my five years was N55
billion. And this included contracts for CBN branches and our CSR
interventions mainly in the universities and secondary schools. How can
anyone suggest that we gave N40 billion to ONSA?
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