MANAGING Director at the World Bank and former Finance and Foreign Affairs Minister under former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s administration, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, said, yesterday, she has been
receiving threat calls from corrupt politicians and business elite not to return home for ministerial appointment.Okonjo-Iweala who revealed this in an interview with the Financial Times of London, said she responded to the threat calls by saying: “But I cannot give up on Nigeria.”
Okonjo-Iweala
She added: “Nigeria matters not just because it is the largest country in Africa by population but also because it is so significant for the rest of West Africa. If Nigeria gets it right, things would really move on, so we need to do better.”Okonjo-Iweala has since returned to the country and appeared before the Senate screening panel, Wednesday, where she answered questions on how she hoped to improve fiscal policies and the nation’s economy.
When she served as Finance Minister under Obasanjo between 2003 and 2006, she played a key role in rehabilitating the nation’s battered image. Her efforts yielded fruitful dividend when she successfully persuaded creditor nations that the nation was serious and willing to forsake her wasteful spending to justify a write-off of two thirds of her external debt then put at $30 billion,
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