Adamawa, Borno and Yobe states, just as the Minister of State for Budget
and National Planning, Prince Clem Ikanade Agba, commended the
programme’s commitment in that regard.UNDP’s Resident Representative in Nigeria, Mr Mohammed Yahya, told the
Minister during a courtesy visit to the Ministry in Abuja that there was
a stabilisation facility to take care of the affected states in the
areas of infrastructure development including roads, houses, clinics and
police stations, among others.
Yahya disclosed that the UNDP had already resource mobilized $64 million
for the region in a period of eighteen months with 50 percent coming to
Nigeria.
According to him, “the Stabilisation facility is a by-product of the
Regional Stabilisation Strategy adopted last year with approval for
Nigeria as the largest contributor.
“We were able to launch it in Berlin where your predecessor, former
Minister of State, Mrs Zainab Ahmed, represented Nigeria and committed
that Nigeria would support the implementation of the facility in the
country.”
He said the effort through the stabilisation facility was to convince
the community that governments at the federal and state levels were very
much interested in ensuring their development and moving them from the
concept of crisis to getting the entire region back on its footing.
“So, we hope to show our commitment to Nigeria and see how Nigeria
herself is able to contribute to the budget of the programme,” Yahya
stated.
The minister expressed appreciation to the UNDP on the stabilisation
facility and stressed the need to bring back the broken down
infrastructure in the three states.
According to him, “That will bring a lot of succor to our people; give
them meaning to life and a new hope. We will work with you to ensure
that those projects come in very quickly.”
He said that the Ministry would be interested in how the UNDP could
deploy technology and capacity building in assisting it to develop the
new national development plan that would succeed the Economic Recovery
and Growth Plan (ERGP) in 2021. The ERGP will come to an end in December
2020.