Nigeria’s Paris Club debt deal: A factual rejoinder to Donald Duke, By Jide Akintunde
Six consequential years disappear from his account: the failed demand for cancellation, the 2000 rescheduling, the reform programme, the IMF instrument, the terms still unsettled in October 2005, and the minister who gave the process institutional direction and led Nigeria’s delegation when the deal was concluded.
The Paris Club’s own account of the 18–20 October meeting names the head of Nigeria’s delegation as “Mrs Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Minister of Finance.
Donald Duke’s recent account of Nigeria’s Paris Club debt deal bears little relation to the public record.
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