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Gowon and corruption: Why Tom Tugendhat should apologise
Mr. Tom Tugendhat (MP for Tonbridge and Malling)
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Fri Dec 25 2020
It is difficult to understand how a Member of the revered British Parliament worth his salt, could have left himself open to ridicule by levelling the unfounded, irrational and bizarre allegations of corruption against General Yakubu Gowon, our former Head of State and to the hilt, the nation’s poster face of probity in public life.
In the wake of the #EndSARS protest by Nigerian youths, Mr. Tom Tugendhat (MP for Tonbridge and Malling) decided rightly to stand on the side of Nigeria. However, perhaps owing to sheer ignorance, carelessness or prejudice, the respected MP made a bizarre and irrational allegation of corruption against General Gowon by accusing him of having moved half the Central Bank of Nigeria when he was overthrown in a military coup in 1975. The very idea that Mr. Tugendhat would believe such stupidity and proceed to broadcast it publi