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Babatunde Raji Fashola<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Babatunde Fashola, the Minister of Works and Housing, has stated that those attacking the Federal government of Nigeria over continued borrowing are nothing more than backward and unsuccessful economists.<\/p>\n

The former governor of Lagos state who made this known while speaking at the Lagos Business School on Tuesday, September 24th further described such critics as unsuccessful individuals.<\/p>\n

His words:<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cToday, the government is constructing roads in every state of Nigeria and while revenues are a challenge to prompt completion. Some \u2018experts\u2019 who have not successfully shown they can run a small business moan the loudest about Nigeria\u2019s borrowing to fund infrastructure investment.<\/p>\n

A Nigerian has borrowed billions of dollars to build a refinery, petrochemical plant, fertilizer plant and gas processing plant, yet some backyard economists complain that a country whose population is in the hundreds of millions is borrowing too much to fix rail, roads, ports (air and sea) and power.\u201d<\/p>\n

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