Ministers didn’t shun US-Nigeria investment forum ---FG
*Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed
(Nigeria) The Federal Government has denied media reports that
Ministers who were invited to the United States-Nigeria Investment Summit in Washington,
DC, on April 19, 2018 shunned the forum.
In a statement in London on Monday, the Minister of
Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, also said most of the Ministers
who were slated to attend the event were not invited and were not in
Washington, DC, at the time, hence the insinuation that some Ministers
collected estacodes without attending the forum is baseless.
He said the Ministers of Agriculture; Power Works and
Housing and Budget and National Planning did not get any invitation from the
organizers, even though they were listed among those who were expected to
attend.
Alhaji Mohammed said the Minister of Industry, Trade and
Investment, who was invited, was with the President at the Commonwealth Heads
of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in London at the time of the summit, while the
Minister of Finance, who was in Washington, DC, at the time, was there
purposely to attend the 2018 Spring Meetings of the World Bank and the
International Monetary Fund.
He said though he (Minister of Information and Culture) was
invited to the forum, he wrote back to inform the organizers that he would not
be able to make the trip due to conflicting schedules.
''It is clear from the foregoing that no Minister shunned
the US Investment Summit and that the reports being circulated in that regard
are bereft of facts,'' the Minister said.
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