A South-East group, Igbo Board of Deputies, has filed a suit at an Abuja High Court, against the Nigerian government and China Exim Bank for depriving the five Igbo states of capital projects to be funded from a $22.7 billion loan. The application is asking the China Exim Bank to suspend loan disbursements to the Nigerian government until an amendment is done to include the region in the projects. This was contained in a statement made available to SaharaReporters by the plaintiffs on Wednesday. A letter had earlier been written to the Chinese bank in Johannesburg on March 11, 2020, for its involvement in collaborating with the Nigerian government to exclude the South-East from capital projects funded by the loan. One of the petitioners, Austin Okeke, disclosed that the group has also petitioned the Economic Community of West African States Court. “Be pleased to note that our court action against the Government of Nigeria, China Exim Bank et al. will be coming up on Decembe
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