The director-general of World Trade Organisations (WTO) Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has said she received death threats when she tried to sanitise Nigeria’s fuel subsidy payments to some marketers during the administration of President Goodluck Jonathan. “We had an oil subsidy system in which we used to pay marketers,” Okonjo-Iweala told the Atlantic Council, an American think-tank on international affairs. “Oil marketers who brought in refined oil, you know, we paid them the difference between the market price and the subsidised price that the government was mandated for selling oil to people. “So, I asked President Jonathan that we could audit the oil accounts which he fully supported. “My mother being kidnapped for five days was one of the worst periods of my life and it was a very tough period,” Okonjo-Iweala said.

Source: The Guardian July 14, 2021 18:00 UTC