Daily Post: Amina Mohammed, UN dep Sec-Gen fingered in $300m timber scandal
Nigeria’s former minister for environment and current United Nations deputy secretary general, Amina J. Mohammed has been identified as allegedly playing a major role in the clearance of over 10,000 containers of illegally harvested logs of Timber.
The shipment is said to be worth $300 million.
According to a documentary seen by DAILY POST, the Chinese government in 2016 stopped the importation of the containers.
But in early 2017 over 4,000 permits were issued by the Nigerian government, thus prompting the Chinese government to release the illegally imported goods into China.
The permits were allegedly signed by Mohammed, shortly before she accepted her new role at the UN.
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Update: Nigeria: UN Deputy Secretary General Amina Mohammed Accused of Impropriety in Timber Export (AllAfrica/Premium Times)
WNU Editor: Massive deforestation operations in Africa and Asia have caused more harm to the global environment and contributed to climate change than what has been acknowledged. I have been witness to the destruction that China has inflicted on its environment from the 1980s to today .... it is truly shocking. My friends in India and Kenya are also telling me the same thing .... as my friend in Kenya told me a few years ago .... when the trees were cut down at the base and vicinity of Mount Kilimanjaro .... that is when the snow-cap on top of the mountain disappeared. This is why the above news story is significant .... to hear advocates from Asia and Africa tell the West that they must implement severe climate change policies while they themselves implement and support policies that destroy their own environment .... I just shake my head.
Update: The UN General Secretary stands by his UN Deputy Secretary .... Nigeria: Amina Mohammed Has My Full Support and Confidence - UN SEC Gen (AllAfrica).
