Reps Solicits More Funding For NEDC — Africa Daily News

By Abdulwahab Muhammad, Bauchi. 

Members of the Committee from the House of Representative have solicited for more funding for the North East Development Commission NEDC.

The Committee stated this while on a working visit to inspect completed and ongoing projects in Bauchí state

The Chairman House Committee on North East Development Commission (NEDC), Hon. Usman Zanna, said it has become necessary to seek for more funding to enable the commission to continue for more developmental projects to rebuild the region.

Some of the projects lawmakers include the Bauchi-Gombe road, Kirfi-Gombe-Abba road, Mega School, constriction and equipping of Medical Emergency Complex and ongoing construction of Institute of Ophthalmology Complex at the Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University Teaching Hospital, Bauchi, as well the Commission's State Office amongst others.

The Committee chairman,Hon Zanna, while speaking to journalists debunked the insinuation that the MD and the NEDC are only doing jobs in one particular area, by seeing this, we have to clear that insinuation. The MD and members of his management are really working in all the states of the region.

He called on the Management of the Commission to collaborate with the House for more funding, to go and look for more funding at the United Nations and other agencies of government as well.

“When we return to Abuja, we will discuss more and how to get more funds to continue with the good work you're doing.

The Managing Director and Chief Executive of the Commission, Mohammed Alkali Goni said that the Commission as an Agency of the Federal Government decided to intervene on the roads as commuters suffer loss of lives and property yearly. 

MD Goni disclosed that the Commission approached the Federal Ministry of Works to intervene in some areas  of the roads, adding that  the road built between Bauchi and Gombe states some eight years ago is completely not motorable,as an agency of the of the federal government and this is a federal road, we are doing this as a Commission to ease the pain of our commuters.