The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has said the Federal Government is borrowing to build world-class infrastructure and not for recurrent expenditure.

The Minister disclosed this on Thursday in his opening address at the town hall meeting organised by his ministry on destruction of telecommunications and power infrastructure in Borno State.

The minister was reacting to critics of the government who believe that the borrowed funds were meant for recurrent expenditure.
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Lai Mohammed said that contrary to what critics believed, government had achieved so much with the borrowed funds in the areas of rail line and road construction, airport upgrade and power infrastructure among others.

He lamented that the ongoing destruction of public infrastructure by hoodlums across the country, which he described as sabotage to government efforts “to fix our decayed and moribund infrastructure

Afonja Christians media destroying all the good work Buhari doing for the future of Nigeria because if bigotry, not knowing there only political gamble is in APC. Continue destroying APC image, just remember you have no stake in PDP

Na infrared...no be only infrastructure.

Buhari government has done well on infrastructure though most of the money were borrowed.

Hahaha, world class infrastructure indeed. Come 2024, 90% of the moneys borrowed will be found in the private vaults of political office holders.

World class kill una there

Sickening

World class infrastructures like the Calabar-Itu Road abi

Are u guying not generating any monry at all that all u do is borrow day and night. If China should. Come for their debt now only God knows if China won't cease Nigeria as a whole. All they use money for is to construct day of 2years span. If u can not plan ahead like the advance countries then u don't deserve to be the head. A head that can't make life easy for his people is nothing but the tail. I rise.

From the stable of Mr Lai, one day new lies

After building the world class infrastructure, they will run to UK for treatment in a low class hospital's, you people are truly stupid.