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There are times egbon Dr. Kassim does this bobbing and weaving - esprit des corps. Could any Chairman of American Treasury have allowed what happened under Okonjo to happen without facing the music? Objective my foot. Sorry egbon, l don't buy that.
On Friday, 17 June 2016, 4:52, africanherald via OkonkwoNetworks <okonkwonetworks@googlegroups.com> wrote:
An objective write-up.
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Dear All:
As a long term die hard fan of Dr Mrs Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala,
I wish her and her family well on this her 62nd Birthday anniversary.
Her husband Dr Ikemba Iweala, a neurosurgeon was my classmate at UI Medical
School (Class of !975).
I sincerely believe that Mrs Okonjo-Iweala is a rare gift to
Nigeria and that she has on aggregate served Nigerians well
to the best of her abilities in all the positions
she occupied during the Obasanjo and Jonathan led civilian
administrations in Nigeria.
It is not easy being a saint in a room full of rogues.
It is also difficult to wine, dine and dance with swines in rat infected gutters
without getting some dirt squirted on one's clothing.
I am also aware that serving Nigerians comes at risk not only to one's physical safety
but also one's reputation. Mrs Okonjo-Iweala's mother was once kidnapped over
her daughter's role in advocating for a policy position during the GEJ
administration.
During her first tern as Minister of Finance, she started the idea
of publishing monthly allocations from the federal government
to all state governments and LGAs.
She implored Nigerian citizens to ask their state governors and
LGA Chairmen about what they were doing with their monthly allocations
from Abuja,
I have been on Mrs Okonjo-Iweala's side on most issues inclusive of
most of her economic
prescriptions for Nigeria and on her incessant warnings as Minister of Finance that
Nigeria needed to save for the rainy day when other Nigerian leaders
especially the state governors, were clamoring that the savings from
the excess crude fund be distributed to them to the last cent.
I was also one of those Nigerians who supported the decision to remove the
oil subsidy when she served as the Finance Minister so that the funds spent
on the subsidy could be saved and spent on infrastructure projects.
A few years ago I spent some time promoting the idea that she could become
the first female President of Nigeria. I still believe she would make a great
President of Nigeria if she decided to throw her hat in the ring and contest.
However, as "No human being is perfect", Mrs Ngozi Oknojo-Iweala is also not a perfect
human being.
In all the years that she served Nigeria, I have only had one issue
on which I criticised and questioned her decision and her judgement.
I still find it difficult accepting Mrs Okonjo-Iweala's role in the Dasukigate Affair,
despite the fact that I sincerely believe that she most probably did not touch a kobo of
the $48 million USD, carted out of the CBN vaults in 11 suit cases
by Mr Dasuki, then National Security Adviser and his Deputy.
Seeing Mrs Okonjo-Iweala's signature on that official document in which she minuted
(wrote) the following words in her handwriting:
"accountability to the President"
followed by her signature felt like a dagger through my heart. I personally felt betrayed!
I found it difficult accepting all the explanations and rationalizations provided by the pundits
about how she had no choice but to sign the document, since President Jonathan had already
given a verbal approval for what the world now knows was a massive heist and
ploy to defraud Nigerian citizens.
I have asked myself about what I would have done if I were in Mrs Okonjo-Iweala's position and I had the
opportunity as the last man standing in the way of the looters led by Dasuki who were
bent on stealing $ 48 million USD from the proceeds that were meant to purchase ammunition for
the Nigerian Armed Forces so the soldiers could more effectively prosecute the war against
the Boko Haram.
Mrs Okonjo-Iweala had the following options:
a) she could have insisted that the disbursement of the funds and the manner in which
it would be carried out be openly discussed and vetted at the Federal
Executive Council.
b) she could have refused to sign the memo and direct that President Jonathan sign off on
the disbursement.
c) she could have resigned her position as Minister of Finance and Co-Ordinator of the Economy
without necessarily providing any reasons for doing so.
The above steps are what I would have taken if I were to have been in Mrs Okonjo-Iweala's position!
Even though I doubt if Mrs Okonjo-Iweala could have stopped the heist that
we now know as Dasukigate if she had resigned her positions from the GEJ cabinet over this issue,
I would still have preferred that she kept her reputation clean by refusing to lend her official signature
to this crime against the peoples of Nigeria.
As I wrote above, no human being is perfect. It is human to err!
Notwithstanding, the above I still believe that Mrs Okonjo-Iweala has left an indelible mark in the annals
of Nigerian public service and that she is a great ambassador for Nigeria and an international icon.
As a citizen if Nigeria, I am proud of her achievements both in Nigeria and on the world stage.
I pray that the best is yet to come for her!
Bye,
Ola
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Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala: 15 Things Every Nigerian Should Know
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1. The immediate past Finance Minister of Nigeria, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala is 62 years today.
Below are 15 Things you should know about her.
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"When I became finance minister, they called me Okonjo-Wahala – or 'Trouble Woman.' It means 'I give you hell.' But I don't care what names they call me. I'm a fighter; I'm very focused on what I'm doing, and relentless in what I want to achieve, almost to a fault. If you get in my way, you get kicked".- Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
1. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala was was born on 13 June 1954, and married to Ikemba Iweala a Neuro-Surgeon.
2. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala graduated from prestigious Harvard University with a Bachelor of Arts.
3. She earned her PhD in regional economic development from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1981 and received an International Fellowship from the American Association of University women (AAUW) that supported her doctoral studies.
4. Okonjo-Iweala has had a two stints with the World Bank Group, first as the vice-president and corporate secretary of the World Bank Group before her first tenure as Minister of Finance in Nigeria and as Managing Director in 2007.
5. She was reappointed as Minister of Finance and the Coordinating Minister for the Economy by President Goodluck Jonathan from 2011-2015.
6. Ngozi Okonjo Iweala led the team that negotiated an $18 billion debt write-off from the Paris Club in 2005.
7. Okonjo-Iweala also introduced the practice of publishing the monthly financial allocation to each state from the federal government in the newspapers. She played a major part in nigeria obtaining its first ever sovereign credit rating (of BB minus) from Fitch and Standard & Poor's.
8. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala is the daughter of a king, but that is not her CV. The Harvard-educated economist has risen to become one of the most respected economists in the world, she is an inspiration and a pride of Africa.
9. She is now a Senior Advisor at Lazard, a Global financial advisory and asset management firm.
10. She is a board member at African Risk Capacity, a Specialized Agency of the African Union (AU) to help Member States improve their capacities to better plan, prepare and respond to extreme weather events and natural disasters, therefore protecting the food security of their vulnerable populations.
11. She is the Board Chair at Gavi, an international organisation - a global Vaccine Alliance, bringing together public and private sectors with the shared goal of creating equal access to new and underused vaccines for children living in the world's poorest countries
12. In 2007, Okonjo-Iweala was considered as a possible replacement for former World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz.
13. Subsequently, in 2012, she became one of three candidates in the race to replace World Bank President Robert Zoellick at the end of his term of office in June 2012.
14. On 16 April 2012 it was announced that she had been unsuccessful in her bid for the World Bank presidency, having lost to the US nominee, Jim Yong Kim. This outcome had been widely anticipated. However, this was the first contested election for World Bank president after the demise in 2010 of the Gentlemen's agreement that the US would appoint the World Bank president and Europe would appoint the managing director of the International Monetary Fund.
15. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala is blessed with four children.
Below are 15 Things you should know about her.
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"When I became finance minister, they called me Okonjo-Wahala – or 'Trouble Woman.' It means 'I give you hell.' But I don't care what names they call me. I'm a fighter; I'm very focused on what I'm doing, and relentless in what I want to achieve, almost to a fault. If you get in my way, you get kicked".- Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
1. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala was was born on 13 June 1954, and married to Ikemba Iweala a Neuro-Surgeon.
2. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala graduated from prestigious Harvard University with a Bachelor of Arts.
3. She earned her PhD in regional economic development from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1981 and received an International Fellowship from the American Association of University women (AAUW) that supported her doctoral studies.
4. Okonjo-Iweala has had a two stints with the World Bank Group, first as the vice-president and corporate secretary of the World Bank Group before her first tenure as Minister of Finance in Nigeria and as Managing Director in 2007.
5. She was reappointed as Minister of Finance and the Coordinating Minister for the Economy by President Goodluck Jonathan from 2011-2015.
6. Ngozi Okonjo Iweala led the team that negotiated an $18 billion debt write-off from the Paris Club in 2005.
7. Okonjo-Iweala also introduced the practice of publishing the monthly financial allocation to each state from the federal government in the newspapers. She played a major part in nigeria obtaining its first ever sovereign credit rating (of BB minus) from Fitch and Standard & Poor's.
8. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala is the daughter of a king, but that is not her CV. The Harvard-educated economist has risen to become one of the most respected economists in the world, she is an inspiration and a pride of Africa.
9. She is now a Senior Advisor at Lazard, a Global financial advisory and asset management firm.
10. She is a board member at African Risk Capacity, a Specialized Agency of the African Union (AU) to help Member States improve their capacities to better plan, prepare and respond to extreme weather events and natural disasters, therefore protecting the food security of their vulnerable populations.
11. She is the Board Chair at Gavi, an international organisation - a global Vaccine Alliance, bringing together public and private sectors with the shared goal of creating equal access to new and underused vaccines for children living in the world's poorest countries
12. In 2007, Okonjo-Iweala was considered as a possible replacement for former World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz.
13. Subsequently, in 2012, she became one of three candidates in the race to replace World Bank President Robert Zoellick at the end of his term of office in June 2012.
14. On 16 April 2012 it was announced that she had been unsuccessful in her bid for the World Bank presidency, having lost to the US nominee, Jim Yong Kim. This outcome had been widely anticipated. However, this was the first contested election for World Bank president after the demise in 2010 of the Gentlemen's agreement that the US would appoint the World Bank president and Europe would appoint the managing director of the International Monetary Fund.
15. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala is blessed with four children.
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