The Minister Health, Prof. Isaac Adewole, said President Muhammadu Buhari has approved a Task Force to rebuild North East with the mandate to restore the infrastructural facilities that have been ravaged by insurgency in the North Eastern states within six months.
The Minister made this declaration when he visited the Deputy Governor of Borno State, Alhaji Usman Mamman Durkwa, over the weekend.
Adewole said the task force would look at health, nutrition, water and environmental challenges and provide quick solutions to the problems.
The task force is to be coordinated by the office of the Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, while the Minister of Budget and National Planning, Senator Udoma Udo Udoma, is the Chairman.
Adewole said each of the components – Water, Health, Environment – is headed by a Minister, adding that the Minister of Health is coordinating health and nutrition components of the task force.
He said the task force would work in Borno ,Yobe and Adamawa States with more emphasis on Borno State.
He added that budget for the programme had been approved, stressing that they were now developing work plan to swing into action and provide the necessary facilities in the States.
The Minister said the Task force would work under the umbrella of the Presidential Initiative for the North East, which would be inaugurated by President Buhari soon.
Adewole further said that the Federal Ministry of Health in her capacity has provided health commodities worth about N1.2 billion to Borno State.
The first consignment, for about N400,000 million, was already in Maiduguri, adding that the second batch would follow later.
He said that the Ministry would continue to partner with Borno State in the area of healthcare delivery.
He added that the challenges of Borno State and other North Eastern States affected not only North East, but the whole country.
In his remarks, Durkwa appreciated the efforts of the Federal Government in re-building Borno State.
He also commended the Federal Ministry of Health for providing health commodities to the state.
He promised that the Government of Borno State remains committed to partner with the Federal Government and Development Partners to ensure that Borno State was rebuilt again.
Trending
- Illegal importation of firearms: Court sentences defendants to two years imprisonment
- Troops subdue 3 Boko Haram terrorists in gunfights
- CSR: Natures Gentle Touch cleans up Lagos road
- LAUTECH introduces Mass Communication, five other degree programmes
- Force PRO orders arrest of officers caught on video bashing driver’s car
- Kebbi gov approves N309m for foreign scholarship
- Chess-in-slums founder, Onakoya, receives heroic welcome to Nigeria after breaking Guinness World Record
- Nigerian Odufeso, emerges regional winner of Cambridge University Press Dedicated Teacher Awards