"Nigeria Was Denied Loans By Some International Bodies Because Of The Farmers-Herdsmen Crisis" - Lai Mohammed
By Nneka Olisa - March 29, 2019
The popular Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed recently
disclosed that foreign bodies had denied Nigerian Government loans.
Lai Mohammed
said Nigerian Government was denied series of loan by International bodies and
this was because of the misinformation surrounding the farmers and herdsmen
crisis in the country.
On Thursday,
while addressing the House of Representatives Committee on Information,
National Orientation, Ethics and Value, the Minister of Information and Culture
told the house that the Nation has been denied loans from foreign bodies and
narrated how he and other personnel's had to go an extra mile to clearing the
perspectives the international bodies had concerning the matter.
"I
remember that in 2018 we made two trips to the UK and two trips to the US, and
these two trips helped tremendously in actually helping the people in the
Diaspora and foreign governments to understand the real dynamics of the
herdsmen/farmers clashes."
"Until we got there, the impression held by many of them was that the
thing was Christians/Muslims, North/South and that time we had to book for
interviews with CNN, BBC, Aljazeera, Reuters and AFP. I think it is an
important part of governance so that if you cannot mold their opinions, at
least it can give them the opportunity of hearing our own side of the
story." Lai Mohammed said.
Meanwhile, he
said it's the duty of the Ministry of Information in the country to dissuade
such perspective about the country and to put the country in a positive light.
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