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Osun Owing 14.2% Of South West’s N1.04 Trillion Domestic Debt (see breakdown)
With N94.14 billion domestic debt, Osun is the first indebted among the 6 South West States with 14.2 percent, OSUN REPORTERS has gathered.
The debt, according to a report from the Debt Management Office (DMO), and published by ThePUNCH, accounts for 9.03 percent of the domestic debt of the region.
Statistics obtained from the DMO office on Monday showed that the geopolitical zone was exposed to a domestic debt of N1.04tn as of March 31.
The South-West has more domestic debt than other regions of the country.
The statistics also showed that the six geopolitical zones of the country were exposed to a total domestic debt of N3.97tn as of March 31.
This means that the South-West geopolitical zone of the country accounts for 26.2 percent of the country’s total subnational domestic debt. It tops domestic debtors’ list with N1.04tn
The geopolitical zone is made up of six states – Osun, Ogun, Oyo, Ekiti, Lagos and Ondo. Lagos, the commercial capital of the country accounts for much of the indebtedness of the zone as it has domestic debt of N542.23bn.
Thus, the state, which is the largest subnational economy in the country, accounts for 51.92 percent of the domestic debt owed by the six states in the South-West.
Osun State with N147.7bn accounts for 14.2 percent of the indebtedness of the South-West region while Ekiti State with N118.01bn accounts for 11.35 percent of the domestic debt owed by the South-West geopolitical zone.
Ogun State accounts for 9.34 percent of the domestic indebtedness of the region with a total of N97.09bn while Ondo which has the least domestic debt in the region accounts for 5.48 percent with N56.96bn.
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