Akwa Ibom State is among the five states in the country with external and domestic debts’ profile standing at N254 billion, Debt Management Office, BudgetIT Research has stated.
Lagos State has the highest debt profile of N946 billion followed by Rivers State with N295 billion, Kaduna – N278 billion, and Delta – N256 billion.
BudgetIT Nigeria under the title: 2019 Total Debt Stock Taking Ranking tweeted on Tuesday, “Here are the 5 states with the highest Total Debt Profile as at December 2019. Lagos N946billion Rivers N295billion Kaduna N278billion Delta N256billion and Akwa Ibom (N254billion).”
The body which is Nigeria’s civic tech organisation, raising the standards of transparency, citizen engagement & accountability most especially in public finance wrote #DataOfTheDay.
Reacting to the tweet by some Nigerians, Nancin wrote “Hope the debts were for infrastructural development…”
Galaxy James tweeted “The richest seems to have nothing much to show for it.”
Reacting too, Hhbee wrote “Thanks for this. Can we also have the states with the highest debt to revenue ratio? That is more indicative data than the absolute figures. Thanks again.”
