This is just as the Committee on Treaties, Protocols and Agreements asked the Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, to appear before it again on August 17. The committee, which is investigating Nigeria’s foreign loans, when Amaechi appeared before it on July 28, raised the alarm that the agreement signed with China might force Nigeria to cede its sovereignty to the Asian country. The source said, “As of now, it is not only the minister (Amaechi) that is going to come, the minister of finance will come. However, it is false that government signed away Nigeria’s sovereignty to China while taking those loans. “The loans which were suspected to have surrendered Nigeria’s sovereignty away were taken by the Buhari administration.

Source: Punch August 05, 2020 23:03 UTC