Loan agreement with China: No Country will sign away its sovereignty – Amaechi

Nigeria’s Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi has reacted to claims that the country in a loan agreement with China signed away its sovereignty.
Speaking during an interview on AIT on Friday, Amaechi explained that the clause was only to guarantee the repayment of the loan and not for Nigeria to lose its sovereignty.

According to him they approached China due to their low interest rate of about 2.8% for 20 years noting that that if the country stopped taking the loans, the infrastructure projects embarked on by the federal government will be affected.
“No country will sign away its sovereignty. The clause says ‘I expect you to pay according to the terms that we agreed on, but if you don’t pay, when I come to collect the assets you used as guarantee, don’t wave your immunity at me and say you can’t touch our assets because we are a sovereign country.
“What you do is to give a sovereign guarantee, which is the clause generating reactions. And I’m ashamed by those interpreting it the other way,” Amaechi said.

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  1. There is no transparency in the present administration that’s why we are complaining, taking loan and pocketing the half of the money which is not part of the agreement. You people use to divert loan taking as your personal property. What we need from you is transparency and accountability, we are the one to pay the money back not you so, we need to shine our eyes well we’ll.

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