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FG approaches China for $17bn loans

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FG approaches China for $17bn loans

The federal government on Tuesday explained why it decided to approach the China-Exim Bank for a $17bn loan request.

It said other lending institutions like the World Bank and the African Development Bank were not showing much interest when Nigeria approached them during recession.

Zainab Ahmed, the minister of finance,  stated this  in the Senate while defending the decision of the regime of president Muhammadu Buhari to borrow $29.96bn loan to fund critical infrastructure across the country.

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She explained that the 8th National Assembly had approved about $6bn for the Federal Government out of the $29.96bn loan, leaving a balance of $22.8bn.

Ahmed told the senate committee on local and foreign loans that the federal government and some state governments were jointly requesting the loans from various lending institutions.

She said 70 per cent of the loan, which is about $17bn, would come from the China-Exim Bank while others would be sourced from other lending institutions such as the Islamic Development Bank.

The minister maintained that the country had no issue with its current debt profile but noted that its dwindling revenue  could not fund the various projects that were expected to have meaningful impact on the lives of Nigerians.

She said, “The funds ($22.8bn) will be channelled to the funding of infrastructure, which will enhance the productivity of our economy.

“Other projects are in healthcare and education. It also includes projects for the rehabilitation of the North- East geopolitical zone, which has been ravaged by insurgency.

“Others are the Mambila Hydro Power project ($4.9bn), Lagos-Kano  modernisation rail project ($4.1bn),  the Development Finance project loan being provided by a consortium of World Bank and African Development Bank agencies ($1.28bn).

“Above all, the loan will help us to improve our electricity supply,  reduce poverty, create jobs, ensure access to finance,  agricultural productivity, guarantee food security, achieve high school enrolment, provide clean potable water, rehabilitate major roads and develop the mining industry.”

On why the  country is seeking 70 per cent of the foreign loan from China, the minister said, “it is meant to make funds available to our own development  institutions so that they can give out loans because access to finance has been difficult for the SMEs.”

On the debt profile of the country,  the minister said, “ The 2016 – 2018 external borrowing plan is both for the Federal Government and

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