The Senior Special Assistant to the President (SSAP) on Millennium Development Goals (MDGs),? has disclosed that four more local governments in Kogi State are in the frame to benefit the MDGs activities this year.
Mrs. Precious Gbeneol, who reiterated her commitment to strengthening the partnership between the MDGs and Nasarawa State government to enhance Nigeria’s efforts to fast-track her march towards the attainment of the MDGs by 2015, sought the state governor’s assisstance towards realising the MDGs.
Mrs. Gbeneol made the statement on Tuesday in Lafia, the state capital, during the sensitisation and advocacy visit on MDGs activities to Governor Umaru Tanko Al-Makura, during which she urged? him to put machinery in place to ensure that MDGs projects in the state are completed for subsequent delivery to communities.
She disclosed some of the projects to be executed in 90 locations in the state to include Primary Healthcare (PHC), procurement and distribution of equipment to support PHC services, construction of VIP and perimeter fencing for PHC centres.
She said that “plans are in top gear to scale up the Conditional Grand Scheme (CGS) to four local governments in the state. I therefore request that you kindly begin to prepare to build capacity and keep some funds as counterpart contribution for the additional LGAs to be taken on,” Mrs. Gbeneol told the governor.
“The performance will determine the amount of funds allocated in subsequent years,” she said, urging the state government to hasten up and complete 2012 projects within this year, as, according to her, the? Federal Ministry of Finance would not extend the budget this year.
In his remarks, Governor Al-Makura pointed out that no policy keyed more perfectly into his government’s transformation agenda like the MDGs because they are targeted at the poor and the vulnerable in the society.
