Information Minister, Lai Mohammed, has defended himself over the N13 million loan request to travel to China.
A document as gone viral on the net that he made a N13 million loan request to the Nigerian Broadcasting Commission (NBC).
He said that those who put the letter on the Internet “are making a mountain out of a mole hill.”
He added that what happened shows decadence in the civil service such that an inter-departmental memo like that would be leaked to the public.
He explained what happened in an interview on Radio Continental:
“Nigeria was invited to the International Conference on Tourism.
“A memo was raised to National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) for special advisers, directors, other key officials and I to attend the conference.
“In fact, I have a personal Invitation from the Information Minister of China.
“So, we decided to obtain a loan from NBC, one of the parastatals of our ministry, a loan which will be paid back, of course.
“I am surprised that this has become a subject in the public domain.”
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