{"id":54769,"date":"2021-12-19T05:17:27","date_gmt":"2021-12-19T04:17:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/?p=54769"},"modified":"2021-12-19T05:17:27","modified_gmt":"2021-12-19T04:17:27","slug":"loans-from-china-now-3-59b-says-dmo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/loans-from-china-now-3-59b-says-dmo\/","title":{"rendered":"Loans From China Now $3.59b, Says DMO"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Debt Management Office has clarified that loans from China to Nigeria, which presently stood at $3.59bn, constitutes only 9.4 per cent of the country\u2019s total foreign debt stock of $37.9bn.<\/p>\n

The Director-General of DMO, Ms Patience Oniha, made this known in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria on Saturday in Abuja.<\/p>\n

She also clarified that the loans were largely concessional, as no national asset was tagged as collateral.<\/p>\n

NAN reports that in recent times, both the social and mainstream media have been awash with news about some African countries, including Nigeria, facing the threat of losing some critical national assets to the Asian country due to high level indebtedness.<\/p>\n

\u201cNigeria\u2019s total debt stock as at September 30 was $37.9bn; this figure comprised the external debt stock of the Federal Government, 36 state governments and the Federal Capital Territory.<\/p>\n

\u201c But total loans from China stands at 3.59 billion dollars, which is 9.47 per cent of the total external debt. The loans did not require any national asset as collateral; they were largely concessional,\u2019\u2019 she said.<\/p>\n

Oniha urged Nigerians to always endeavour to verify sensitive information from official sources before disseminating it.<\/p>\n

She explained that before foreign loans were contracted, very sensitive steps were taken by multiple institutions of government to ensure that they were beneficial to the nation.<\/p>\n

\u201cBefore any foreign loan is contracted, including the issuance of Eurobond, they are approved by the Federal Executive Council and thereafter, the National Assembly.<\/p>

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\u201cAn important and extremely critical step is that the loan agreements are approved by the Federal Ministry of Justice.<\/p>\n

\u201cAn opinion is issued by the Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice before the agreements are signed.<\/p>\n

\u201cSeveral measures which operate seamlessly have been put in place to ensure that data on debt are available and that debt is serviced as at when due. Provisions are made explicitly for debt service in the annual budgets,\u2019\u2019 she said.<\/p>\n

Oniha explained that the loans agreements provided a number of steps to take to resolve dispute when they arise.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe first action is that the parties should resolve it within themselves and if that fails, they go to arbitration.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn other words, a lender, in this case, China, would not just pounce on an asset at the first sign of a dispute, including defaults,\u2019\u2019 the she said.<\/p>\n

She explained that the DMO maintained proper records of debts, provided projections for debt service and processed the actual payments for debt service.<\/p>\n

She pointed out that those functions were carried out in conjunction with the Office of the Accountant-General of the Federation (OAGF) and the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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