Senate Blames Obasanjo, Yar’Adua, Jonathan For President Buhari's Constant Borrowing

Date: 23-09-2021 8:58 am (2 years ago) | Author: kacy lee
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The Nigerian Senate has blamed past presidents for the country’s current debt profile.

Senator Solomon Olamilekan Adeola, who is the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Finance, claimed ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo, Umaru Musa Yar’Adua, and Goodluck Jonathan are responsible.

Adeola claimed the debts accumulated between 1999 and 2015.

The lawmaker disclosed this on Wednesday during consideration of the 2022-2024 Medium Term Expenditure Framework and Fiscal Strategy Paper.

In a statement signed by spokesman of the Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, Ezrel Tabiowo, the lawmaker said Adeola disclosed this when asked by Lawan to make clarifications on concerns raised by lawmakers over Nigeria’s debt profile during deliberation on the report of the Joint Committees on Finance; Local and Foreign Debts; Banking, Insurance and Other Financial Institutions; Petroleum Resources (Upstream); Downstream Petroleum Sector and Gas on the 2022-2024 Medium Term Framework.

According to the lawmaker “a huge part of Nigeria’s total debt profile roughly estimated at N33trillion naira were incurred by past administrations dating back to the military era.”

He added: “Majority of the loans being repaid presently by the President Muhammadu Buhari administration were ones accumulated from the times of the military to those of the PDP administration under Ex-Presidents Olusegun Obasanjo, Umaru Musa Yar’Adua and Goodluck Jonathan, between 1999 and 2015.

“The borrowing you are saying is accumulated borrowing. It is not a borrowing of this administration alone, it is a borrowing that stems from the days of the military to the days when the Democratic dispensation started.

“It is an accumulated loan, it is not a loan that says that it is the current administration of President Buhari that has borrowed.

“It is a loan that has been borrowed by the previous administration – the Obasanjo, the Jonathan, the Yar’Adua of this world.



Posted: at 23-09-2021 08:58 AM (2 years ago) | Addicted Hero
- marijuanaa at 23-09-2021 09:41 AM (2 years ago)
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Ntn last 4eva...
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- Kormeijama at 23-09-2021 10:44 AM (2 years ago)
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Usual lame excuses from African leaders who fail their people. These lunatics never accept  responsibilities for their poor polices and strategies, but  will remain in denial of their awful performances until they're kicked out. Everything wrong with their  poor performance  was caused by their predecessors. Yet they all promise to create a New direction to  bring  light into the dark alleys.
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