WTO DG, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
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.
