Fayemi clarifies why he was truant at Washington Investment Forum

Fayemi clarifies why he was truant at Washington Investment Forum

The Minister of Mines and Steel Development, Kayode Fayemi, on Monday couldn't help contradicting those blaming him for evading the US-Nigerian speculation summit, expressing that he didn't affirm participation at any venture discussion in Washington DC. 

He talked in an announcement marked by his Special Adviser on Media, Yinka Oyebode, following reports that the Emir of Kano, HRM Muhammad Sanusi, reprimanded a few Ministers for their nonattendance at an Investment gathering sorted out by the Nigerian Embassy in Washington DC. 

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The announcement peruses, "In actuality, the Minister and a couple of his associates, amid the said period were going to some venture gathering sorted out by the Nigeria Investment Promotion Commission (NIPC) on the sidelines of the Commonwealth Head of Government meeting (CHOGM), in London, UK. 

"There have been cases where names of Ministers and best government authorities were reported as members in a few occasions without appropriate welcome and affirmation of participation. This is absolutely the case with the Washington occasion. 

"In this way, to propose that that Dr Fayemi was in Washington and picked not to go to the occasion couldn't have been a precise record of what happened. He was surely no place close America and the coordinators can't state he affirmed to be at the occasion. 

"Coordinators of imperative occasions ought not generally expect they have set up the essential advances when they basically have not taken the torment to welcome and furthermore affirm participation at an occasion."