| Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State said he is standing by his earlier pronouncement that Onolemenmen collected the $700 million, which is about N140 billion from the Sovereign Wealth Funds. He said the figures were not figures manufactured by anybody but released by the managers of the SWF to a committee set up by President Goodluck Jonathan to probe the usage of the money in the Excess Crude Account and others associated with the sale of oil.
Oshiomhole said the SWF managers “told our committee that about $700 million dollars were taken from the Sovereign Wealth Fund for the Second Niger Bridge project”...............................................Full Article: Source
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