President Muhammadu Buhari, yesterday, said the Federal Government, between 2015 and 2022, completed at least 266 projects.
According to an issued statement signed by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, Buhari said this at the launch of a 554-page compendium of ecological projects undertaken by his regime, shortly before the commencement of the Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting.
Buhari also urged States and Local Governments to judiciously use their shares of the ecological fund, strictly for ecological projects towards addressing the ecological problems in their areas. While directing government Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) to give adequate publicity to the regime’s achievements in this area, he also revealed that 332 ecological projects were approved since 2015, out of which 266 were accomplished while the remaining 66 are at different stages of completion.
The President also commended the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, (SGF), Boss Mustapha and the Management Team of the Ecological Project Office (EPO), for the judicious use of available resources for the effective implementation of approved projects, as well as the initiative for publication.
Further, Buhari directed Ministries, Departments and Agencies to showcase their performance and achievements to the public through the publication in order to leverage the benefits accruable to government from the efforts of the EPO.
He noted that the compendium, which is for the reading pleasure and knowledge of Nigerians, would bridge the information and communication gap between Nigerians and the real-time performance of the regime by portraying the specific locations of ecological projects, with pictorial evidence as well as proof of handing over the projects to the beneficiaries. He, therefore, urged States and Local Government Areas to judiciously use their shares of the ecological fund, strictly for ecological projects towards addressing the ecological problems in their areas.
Speaking earlier, SGF Mustapha told the President that the 554-page publication supervised by the Permanent Secretary, EPO, Dr Habiba Lawal, is mean to keep the public abreast of the efforts of the government in addressing verified ecological problems in ‘‘all the nooks and crannies of Nigeria’’.
