Author: Abdallah el-Kurebe

Responding to a question on the state’s debt burden Bago said, “If you are asking about the finances of Niger State, I think governance is a continuum and I don’t want to allow negative energy to pull me back. As a government, we will have to move on. Whether it is negative as it were, whether it is positive you know, but the most important is that you have identified where we are and we know where we are going to. So rest assured that the debts of governance, you know, if debts are taken progression is positive, if they are taken and carted away, it’s negative. I can reassure you that we’ll restructure these debts and free some funds for development.

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