Niger gov invites EFCC to investigate $181m Islamic bank loan

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Barely weeks after former governor Babangida Aliyu alleged that Islamic Development Bank had released a $181m loan to the All Progressives Congress-led administration to fix Minna-Bida Road, Governor

Abubakar Bello of Niger State has invited the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission to determine if the money has been released or not.He made this known at the official flag-off of the 2019 Local Government Area election campaign in Minna, declaring that the loan had not entered into the coffers of the government.

The former governor stated that the loan was meant for the dualization of the Minna-Bida Road and wondered why the government did not utilise the money for the purpose it was meant for urging the people to demand that the government give an account of the money and the purpose it was expended on.“I went to Jeddah in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to seek an interest-free loan to dualise the Minna-Bida Road, but by the time the money came I had left the office.

 

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