“I Never Backdated Or Illegally Signed Any Permit” – Amina Mohammed Denies Involvement In $300 million Timber Scandal
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 The Cable, Mohammed said she instead spent her time at the ministry to battle Illegal exportation of Wood.
She said;
She said;
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 The Cable, Mohammed said she instead spent her time at the ministry to battle Illegal exportation of Wood.
She said;
She said the first thing she noticed after her appointment as a minister was the level of deforestation.“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;
“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…
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