EXPOSED: Minister of Trade helped MTN move $13.92bn out of Nigeria illegally - Dino Melaye

Senate spoke person, Senator Dino Melaye has made allegation to the effect that Minister of Trade and Investment, Okechukwu Enelamah, in cohort with ‎MTN, illegally moved $13.92billion out of Nigeria between 2006 and 2016. In a motion on the floor of the senate, Dino stated names of other Nigerians whom he alleged were complicit in the act. According to him,


“The senate notes with serious concern the repatriation of $13.92bn illegally out of Nigeria by
Mobile Telecommunication Limited (MTN) through its‎ bankers between 2006 and 2016. Concerned that since inception, MTN had sought the collaboration of influential and unpatriotic Nigerians to assist them in looting our external reserves. Pained that these Nigerians, including a serving minister who MTN used in moving $13.92bn out of Nigeria, which is over 50 percent of our external reserves floated and incorporated offshore SPVs in Cayman Island, Mauritius and British Virgin Island. The minister of industry, trade and investment, Dr Okechukwu Enelamah, owner of CELTELCOM Investment Limited with address at No 608, St James, Denis Street Port-Lewis Mauritius purportedly claimed to invest in MTN on February 7, 2008, got certificate of capital importation and filled form A on the same date, closed his investment in Nigeria after receiving dollar payment‎ for repatriation to New York same day.”


Consequently, the senate has mandated her committee on banking, insurance and other financial institutions to carry out a thorough investigation to uncover the what must have went wrong.