President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has received a petition against Africa’s richest man, Alhaji Aliko Dangote over $3.4 billion allegedly siphoned through the Central Bank of Nigeria.
According to Sahara Reports, the petition was attached to a letter addressed to President Tinubu and filed by Ahmed Fahad, a social justice advocate.
It was dated August 18, 2023, and titled ‘Petition To President Tinubu Against Dangote’ and copied to Jim Obazee, who was recently appointed by the President as a special investigator to probe the Central Bank of Nigeria and related entities.
The petition accused Dangote of grossly violating the Forex Guidelines of the CBN for years.
It alleged that the suspended CBN Governor Godwin Emefiele borrowed $1 billion from Afrexim Bank in the second quarter of 2023, out of which $750 million was “illegally funneled to Dangote at a concessionary rate”.
It, therefore, urged the President investigate the “flagrant violations of our financial laws”.
It reads, “I bring to your attention a scandalous issue of gross financial misconduct and illegality involving the Dangote Group – a flagrant abuse of the Central Bank of Nigeria’s (CBN) forex guidelines for the past 10 years
