BELOW ARE KEY THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW AS A CITIZEN⬇
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The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Nigeria @SECNigeria is the apex regulatory institution of the Nigerian capital market supervised by the @FinMinNigeria.
It regulates/develop the capital market to protect investors & enhance its allocative efficiency.
The N25bn bond had a prospectus registered with SEC before it was used to raise money from investors. It contains everything you need to know about the company issuing the bonds, what it will do with the money, and the terms of the investment.
A bond is a fixed income instrument that represents a loan made by an investor to a borrower (corporate or governmental) to raise money for public works/projects like the construction & maintenance of roads, hospitals, schools, water & other infrastructure.
Due to economic realities & passion to develop Ekiti, N25bn bond was obtained in 2 tranches; N20bn in 2011 & N5bn in 2013. As at this time, @GEJonathan withheld the refund of N20bn FG owed Ekiti for executing FG projects until Fayose became Gov. in 2014
As at the end of his 1st tenure, Dr. Fayemi paid N14bn out of the N25bn bond.
Since 2014, N6bn was paid out of the remaining 11bn.
This means that the 1st tranche of N20bn has since been paid up in full while the 2nd tranche will be fully paid by 2020.
The N25bn bond was channeled into infrastructure, finance, agriculture, education, health and other large-scale projects to create jobs, improve livelihood and standard of living, accelerate access to markets and enhance inclusive economic growth.
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This was built, fully equipped & ready to take off in 2014 to focus on mid-level manpower development in the Agric sector but was neglected by the immediate past administration for 4yrs so much that the structures/tools were overgrown with weed.
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This was constructed to serve as a reference point for indigenes and potential investors seeking information on business opportunities, investment areas and other programmes of the State Government.
This exercise should have been concluded between 2014-2018 but the administration of Fayose refused to cooperate with the regulator to conclude the verification process since he abandoned most of these laudable projects.
On the re-election of Dr. Fayemi for a second term, the SEC will now conclude the verification and documentation process required in its oversight functions of ensuring that the funds were utilized as proposed.