Former Head of State, General Yakubu Gowon, has dismissed the allegations of money laundering levelled against him by a member of the United Kingdom parliament.
The elder statesman condemned the claims in an interview with Channels Television on Thursday, three days after the UK lawmaker, Tom Tugendhat, accused him of looting half of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN).
He stated that it was disappointing that a British parliamentarian could make such a statement without checking the facts.
He insisted that there was no time when he was held or questioned for money laundering, stressing that the allegation that he looted the nation’s treasury was false.
General Gowon, who said he heard about the allegation from social media, insisted that there was nothing to hide and that the record was there for the lawmaker and the British authorities to check.
He also called on the UK government to take the necessary step to order, stressing that making an allegation of such caliber was an insult to him and Nigeria as a nation.
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