‘Outrageous tweet,’ Okonjo-Iweala refutes claim of facilitating World Bank loan for Biafra

The Director-General of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, has refuted a claim by Simon Ekpa, a Biafran political activist, that she facilitated a $57.5 billion loan for the Biafra Republic Government in exile.

The rebuttal came in response to a post by Ekpa on X (formerly Twitter), where he falsely claimed that Okonjo-Iweala had helped secure a loan from the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF).

Ekpa’s tweet dated October 23, 2024, implied that the loan was meant to support the formation of the Biafra government following a planned declaration of independence on December 2, 2024.

 

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He wrote, “The World Bank and IMF have agreed to loan the sum of $57.5 billion to Biafra Republic Government in Exile (BRGIE) to form our government after December 2nd 2024 declaration of Biafra.

“I thank our sister, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala for helping me to facilitate the loan.”

However, Okonjo-Iweala, in a terse statement on her personal X account, debunked the claim, saying that no sensible person would believe such an “outrageous tweet.”

She said, “I know no sensible person will believe what is contained in the outrageous tweet below, but in these troubled times, it is important to underscore that the statement is false.  Again, I enjoin all those seeking to misuse my name to desist!”

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