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    Posted On 03 Jan 2020
    By : New Africa Business News, Staff Correspondent
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    By Abdul Rahman Suagibu –

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    NEW AFRICA BUSINESS NEWS, Freetown, Sierra Leone- NIGERIA, Akinwumi Adesina – President of the African Development Bank, has declared that, the biggest thing to happen to Africa is the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA), saying the free trade area itself is worth over 3.3 trillion dollars.

    The Bank’s President made the disclosure when addressing State House correspondents in Abuja on 2nd January, 2020 expressed hope that the effective implementation of AfCFTA would take the continent to a greater height.

    By extension , he nod to concoction for the creation of a single currency by the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), named ‘ECO’, describing it as a great idea.

    “Obviously being able to trade in various currencies, it’s not optimum to trade in so many currencies. So it makes common sense to have a unified currency and of course for that to even be achieved – the ECO, I support ECO greatly, I think it’s a great idea.

    “But obviously, there are a number of convergence criteria that would have to be met and I am sure that our President is talking with other presidents to be sure that they can meet those criteria and the region can be fully integrated,” he said. The Bank’s Chief advised the federal government of Nigeria to invest its idle pension funds estimated at N9.56 trillion for infrastructural revolution in the country.

    African countries with over 1.8trillion dollars pension and sovereign wealth assets, can leverage on such huge resources to improve infrastructure in the continent.

    He furthered: “African countries have an infrastructure gap of between 68 billion dollars to 108 billion, which could be adequately addressed by utilizing the 1.8 trillion dollars accrued pension and sovereign wealth funds.”

    The AfDB president urged African leaders to explore the possibility of spending the funds by investing in infrastructure development. And makes it clearly that “charity begins at home”, said with such huge resources, African governments have no need looking elsewhere to seek funds for development or investing the funds.

    Adesina explained that with good infrastructure, Africa would be better positioned to compete favourably in trading with others.

    He commended the continent’s leaders for increasing the banks shareholders’ funds to 115 billion dollars.

    According to Adesina, the bank is now better placed to continue to support the development of infrastructure across the continent,

    “Today, Africa has an infrastructure gap of about roughly 68 billion dollars to 108 billion dollars infrastructure financing gap. At the AfDB, we have been working so hard to close that particular gap.

    “When it comes to the issue of attracting capital to do that, there are three things that I will say; first, we have to also look at home.

    “Today, in Africa, the size of the sovereign wealth fund and pension fund and insurance pool of fund (mutual funds) is about 1.8 trillion dollars.

    “If we can just tap a little part of that, we will close very quickly the infrastructure gap that we are talking about. But, you see a lot of sovereign investment funds being invested in other sovereigns outside the continent.

    “So, they become the sovereign wealth of others and then you go back and borrow back your own money; it doesn’t really make a lot of sense. I say that charity always begins at home.”

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