Why the Chinese Loan Probe Must Continue, By Ebere Onwudiwe - Premium Times Opinion

  • 📰 PremiumTimesng
  • ⏱ Reading Time:
  • 39 sec. here
  • 2 min. at publisher
  • 📊 Quality Score:
  • News: 19%
  • Publisher: 78%

Loans Loans Headlines News

Loans Loans Latest News,Loans Loans Headlines

Opinion: Why the Chinese Loan Probe Must Continue, By Ebere Onwudiwe

The minister should know that life is all about making choices among assorted alternatives and that it is the options we give up to obtain what we want that constitute trade-offs. For instance, a country can forgo a chunk of its sovereignty tomorrow for rail lines built on opaque Chinese loans today. This is just to say that trade-offs involve sacrifices like this…

Here’s the weirdest: The minister actually asked the committee to postpone the probe and resume in December, after he would have received the money from China. This is quite unusual, to say the least. Renegotiating a loan with China is not a radical idea. It is what patriotic leaders of a country do when they suspect a bad deal, as we are currently supposing on the Chinese loan in question. This is the reason why the probe must be allowed to continue…

…according to a report by The Guardian on August 2, he assured us that Nigeria was not ceding its sovereignty to China because the Sovereign Guarantee clause in the loan agreement was only to reassure “China that it can take over the asset constructed with the loan, should Nigeria default.”

 

Thank you for your comment. Your comment will be published after being reviewed.
Please try again later.
We have summarized this news so that you can read it quickly. If you are interested in the news, you can read the full text here. Read more:

 /  🏆 3. in LOANS

Loans Loans Latest News, Loans Loans Headlines

Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.

Corruption: Why Buhari deserves credit | The NationThe alarming rate of the corruption scourge in Nigeria has so widely spread to the point of drawing international focus and embarrassing remarks. Recall that a former Prime Minister of Britain once referred to Nigeria as a “fantastically corrupt” county.
Source: TheNationNews - 🏆 6. / 69 Read more »