Previous Nigerian Military leader, Yakubu Gowon, has refused to accept cases of him taking ''half of the Central Bank of Nigeria''.
Review that on Monday, November 23, the UK parliament discussed a request looking to force sanctions on Nigerian Government authorities engaged with the shooting episode that happened during the Endsars protest in Lekki on October 20.
During the discussion, the Conservative MP Tom Tugendhat, an individual from the parliament, encouraged his administration to put sanctions on Nigerians who escape to the UK with not well gotten money. He likewise talked about Nigeria's previous military ruler, Yakubu Gowon's supposed looting of the Central Bank of Nigeria.
According to him;
“What we are seeing in Nigeria today is part of that story. It is a tragedy we are all witnessing because we see things falling apart.
“The problem this time is not foreign pressure known as colonialism. The pressure instead is corruption and violence and attempts at control (of power).
“We need to call out the corruption, we need to use the powers that we have in this country to stop those who are profiting from the wealth of that great nation and hiding it here.
“Now some people will remember when general Gowon left Nigeria, he took half of the Central Bank, so it is said, and moved to London.
“We know today, even now in this great city of ours, there are sadly some people who have taken the wealth of Nigerian people and hidden their ill-gotten gains here.
“We know that our banks sadly have been used for that profit or that illegal transfer of asset and that means that the UK is in a unique position in being able to actually do something to really exert pressure on those who have robbed Nigerians."
In any case, in a selective meeting with the BBC, Gowon responded to the claims as ''Rubbish''
“What the MP said is rubbish. I don’t know where he got that rubbish from, I served Nigeria diligently and my records are there for all to see.
I did not want to speak on this issue because people that know me know that what the MP said is not true'' he said
In the wake of leaving power in a bloodless overthrow in 1975, Gowon went to the UK and applied into Warwick University as an undergrad where he read political science and public relations.
