Naira depreciation: Former Bauchi governor fingers corrupt politicians

Isa Yuguda, the former governor of Bauchi State, has stated that the current downturn of the naira in the forex market was caused by corrupt politicians who mop up dollars and store them in their houses and foreign accounts.

Yuguda made the statement at the conference on tackling poverty in Northern Nigeria.

According to him, one of the causes of the food crisis currently facing the country is the result of insecurity, coupled with panic buying and hoarding of food commodities by Nigerians.

The former governor said that tackling poverty in Northern Nigeria needs a deliberate approach.

He urged the economic team of the President Bola Tinubu government to adopt policies that would tackle the economic challenges across the country.

He also called on the Federal Government to look critically and invest in the area of security to tackle the current security challenges facing the country.

“To comment on the economic situation at this point, having known so much, is very difficult because of the state of the economy.

”What President Bola Tinubu inherited, looking at the debt portfolio, local, external debt, even our debt service ratio, which is in the ratio of almost 97%, means that every month whatever we collect 97% goes to debt service,” he said.