{"id":35796,"date":"2019-11-01T11:16:45","date_gmt":"2019-11-01T10:16:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/?p=35796"},"modified":"2019-11-01T11:16:45","modified_gmt":"2019-11-01T10:16:45","slug":"concerned-nigerlites-urge-gov-bello-to-explain-details-about-the-181-million-idb-loan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/concerned-nigerlites-urge-gov-bello-to-explain-details-about-the-181-million-idb-loan\/","title":{"rendered":"Concerned Nigerlites Urge Gov Bello To Explain Details About The $181 Million IDB Loan"},"content":{"rendered":"

Olabode Adaramola<\/p>\n

As the controversy rages on\u00a0 over the perceived\u00a0 $181 million Islamic Development Bank’s (IDB) loan between\u00a0 former Governor Muazu Babangida Aliyu and his successor in office, Governor Abubakar Sani Bello, of Niger state, a group of youths under the aegis of\u00a0 ‘some concerned Nigerlites’\u00a0 have asked the incumbent governor Abubarkar Sani Bello to make good his promise,\u00a0 by ensuring transparency and accountability in all government businesses.<\/p>\n

The group also wants Governor Bello and his predecessor to end the political hostilities between them and name calling in the overall interest of the citizens of the state, as such hostilities and dirty politicking portrays bad examples and account of themselves before youths in Niger state.<\/p>\n

The “Concerned Nigerlites” in a Press statement signed by the Chairman and Secretary, Messrs Abdullahi Suleiman and Ndama Eli respectively wondered why the noise about who applied and got approvals for the IDB loan, saying, “what should be of importance is that the money was judiciously utilized”.<\/p>\n

It could be recalled that former Governor\u00a0 Babangida Aliyu made public his fears about the money, stressing that\u00a0 Governor Bello should have\u00a0as a man of integrity he wanted the people to believe, by simply asked the ministry of finance to release financial details of the state at least to prove his predecessor wrong.<\/p>\n

They want Governor Bello to always seek for elders counsels\u00a0 on some sensitive state’s matters that could threaten peace and unity amongst citizens and to apologize to Nigerlites for ridiculing the state before the whole world because of his alleged\u00a0 failure to provide answers on how monies accruable to the state, including all loans in the past four years was
\nutilized.<\/p>\n

The group stated further that in as much as it wanted to remain neutral or resisted being judgmental,\u00a0 said Nigerlites will not be asking for too much by demanding that both former governor\u00a0 Aliyu and incumbent governor\u00a0 Bello to put aside their political differences and join hands in moving Niger state forward to enviable heights.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe the concerned Nigerlites are not happy about all these banters. Former governor Aliyu publicly said he got the $181 million to dualise
\nMinna-Bida but the money could not be accessed until now, we expected governor Bello to simply confirm if it is true or not, we don\u2019t want to rely on rumours.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is natural to be interested hearing such amount and because we do not want to dwell on runours. We are not probing anybody, who applied for or who got the approvals is immaterial to us, we are only interested in knowing everything about $181 million\u201d, said the group.<\/p>

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It, however, added that, if it turned out that the former governor was lying,\u00a0 that the youths in the state will go after him.<\/p>\n

The statement further expressed regrets at the infrastructural decay, especially intra-and inter-state roads which gave rise to protests and perceived discordant voices against the present administration, arguing that it was only natural for one to demand dividends of democracy, including provision of good roads.<\/p>\n

“It is possible that the governor is being overwhelmed by the demands of his office and that is why he has not been able to address Nigerlites, insisting that, nothing short of addressing citizens on this subject matter will assuage the peoples\u2019 curiosity.<\/p>\n

\u201cGovernor Bello himself once said his administration will be transparent and will have zero tolerance for corruption, we want him to be practical, live by example. We are not interested on the ongoing attacks or blame games\u201d, the group insist.<\/p>\n

It added that what the former governor Babangida Aliyu said about how his administration sought and got approval for the Islamic Development Bank’s (IDB) loan for dualization of Minna-Bida road has caught the attention of all well meaning Nigerlites and that is why everybody was interested to hear more where the money was being kept\u00a0 now.<\/p>\n

The group said it could not verify from former senator, representing Kaduna Central senatorial district,\u00a0 Senator Shehu Sani who served as the Committee Chairman, Senate Committee on Foreign loans when the IDB loan was applied for and approval obtained because of the belief\/trust that governor Bello will live by his words to be transparent.<\/p>\n

It also recalled popular weekly documentaries by the Nigerian Television Authority (NTA), \u201cFrom the Government House\u201d, anchored by the present\u00a0 Chief Press Secretary, to the Governor, Mrs. Mary Noel-Berje,\u00a0 showcasing issues about the loan and wondered why the unnecessary delay in making public,\u00a0 everything Nigerlites needed to know about the loan.<\/p>\n

They therefore asked Governor Bello to end the war of words capable of allegedly breeding tension and degenerating into chaos, and charged him to prove\u00a0 his detractors wrong by not only giving an insight into the said $181 million IDB interest free loan, but other monies acruable to the state in the past four years or thereabout , including how and on what projects\/contracts was\u00a0 expended on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As the controversy rages on\u00a0 over the perceived\u00a0 $181 million Islamic Development Bank’s (IDB) loan between\u00a0 former Governor Muazu Babangida Aliyu and his successor in office, Governor Abubakar Sani Bello, of Niger state, a group of youths under the aegis of\u00a0 ‘some concerned Nigerlites’\u00a0 have asked the incumbent governor Abubarkar Sani Bello to make good his promise,\u00a0 by ensuring transparency and accountability in all government businesses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":8520,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,1593,17,624],"tags":[1829],"coauthors":[2391],"class_list":["post-35796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-business","category-metro","category-news","category-politics","tag-gov-sani-bello"],"yoast_head":"\nConcerned Nigerlites Urge Gov Bello To Explain Details About The $181 Million IDB Loan - National Wire<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/concerned-nigerlites-urge-gov-bello-to-explain-details-about-the-181-million-idb-loan\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Concerned Nigerlites Urge Gov Bello To Explain Details About The $181 Million IDB Loan - National Wire\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"As the controversy rages on\u00a0 over the perceived\u00a0 $181 million Islamic Development Bank's (IDB) loan between\u00a0 former Governor Muazu Babangida Aliyu and his successor in office, Governor Abubakar Sani Bello, of Niger state, a group of youths under the aegis of\u00a0 'some concerned Nigerlites'\u00a0 have asked the incumbent governor Abubarkar Sani Bello to make good his promise,\u00a0 by ensuring transparency and accountability in all government businesses.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/concerned-nigerlites-urge-gov-bello-to-explain-details-about-the-181-million-idb-loan\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"National Wire\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2019-11-01T10:16:45+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/gov.-abubakar-sani-bello.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"696\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Friday Ekeoba\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"4 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/\",\"name\":\"National Wire\",\"description\":\"About Nigerians, Nigerian Business and Other Stories\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/concerned-nigerlites-urge-gov-bello-to-explain-details-about-the-181-million-idb-loan\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/gov.-abubakar-sani-bello.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/gov.-abubakar-sani-bello.jpg\",\"width\":720,\"height\":696,\"caption\":\"Niger State Gov. 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