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EXCLUSIVE: 'White Elephant': How Ebonyi Government Squandered Over N53billion Borrowed Funds On Abandoned Airport, Serving Only Umahi, Family

EXCLUSIVE: 'White Elephant': How Ebonyi Government Squandered Over N53billion Borrowed Funds On Abandoned Airport, Serving Only Umahi, Family While the former Umahi administration

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EXCLUSIVE: 'White Elephant': How Ebonyi Government Squandered Over N53billion Borrowed Funds On Abandoned Airport, Serving Only Umahi, Family
EXCLUSIVE: 'White Elephant': How Ebonyi Government Squandered Over N53billion Borrowed Funds On Abandoned Airport, Serving Only Umahi, Family

EXCLUSIVE: 'White Elephant': How Ebonyi Government Squandered Over N53billion Borrowed Funds On Abandoned Airport, Serving Only Umahi, Family

While the former Umahi administration expended over N36 billion in borrowed funds to construct the edifice, structural defects on the concrete runway forced the new government to sink an additional N17.3 billion into major remedial overhauls on the runway with asphalt.

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