The Director-General of the World Trade Organisation, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, on Wednesday recounted how a deliberate communication strategy helped Nigeria secure the landmark $30 billion Paris Club debt relief during the administration of former President Olusegun Obasanjo.
Okonjo-Iweala spoke in Abuja at the public presentation of The Pain and the Promise, a new book by communications expert and public affairs analyst, Paul Nwabuikwu.
Reflecting on her time as Minister of Finance, Okonjo-Iweala said she was brought in from the World Bank in 2003 to help restore Nigeria’s public finances, including negotiating the elimination of the country’s estimated $30 billion debt owed to the Paris Club of creditors.
She said the ambitious reform agenda required Nigerians to understand and support difficult economic policies.
“I had been brought in from the World Bank to help straighten up and strengthen Nigeria’s weak finances, including getting rid of the $30 billion of the country’s debt
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