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The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), on Saturday, defended his government’s borrowing describing it as a vital step to supply infrastructure that would extend possibilities for the increase of the Nigerian economy.
Buhari noted this in what would be his ultimate Independence Day tackle to the country on October 1, 2022.
According to him, “The Federal Government is already increasing port operations to make certain that they grant possibilities for the boom of the Nigerian economy.
“We have additionally persisted to speed up our infrastructure improvement via serviceable and obvious borrowing, expanded capital influx & expanded income technology through increasing the tax bases and prudent administration of funding proceeds in the Sovereign Wealth Fund.
“To further open up our communities to financial activities, we have endured to improve our railway infrastructure with the completion of a excellent wide variety of crucial railways and at the identical time rehabilitating as properly as upgrading out of date equipment.”
The President additionally mentioned that no village in the country was once left in the back of in the regime’s Social Investment Programmes such as N-Power, trader-moni, market moni, etc.
“I am thrilled to inform my fellow residents that barring our emphasis on infrastructural improvement with its attendant possibilities for job creation, employment era and subsequent poverty reduction, our centered intervention at once to Nigerians thru the National Social Investment Programme is additionally yielding benefits.
“There is infrequently any ward, village or nearby authorities in Nigeria nowadays that has no longer benefited from one of the following: N-Power, trader-moni, market moni, sponsored loans, commercial enterprise gives you or Conditional Cash Transfers.
“All the aforementioned programmes alongside with quite a number interventions through the National Social Investment programme, direct assist to victims of flooding and different types of mess ups have furnished succour to the affected Nigerians,” Buhari said.
