Speaking at the formal handover ceremony of the projects in Maiduguri on Wednesday, the Borno State Deputy Governor, Alhaji Umar Kadafur, lauded NNPC/SNEPCO for the intervention.
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Dr. Marvin Dekil, the Project Coordinator, Hydrocarbon Pollution Remediation Project, said at the opening of the bid in Port Harcourt that the project was initiative of the UN Environment Programme Report on Ogoniland.
Suileman Adamu, the Minister of Water Resources, says the Federal Government has commissioned no fewer than 700 water projects in Ogun and Kano states in the last two years.
The Minister of Water Resources, Engr. Suleiman Adamu, has finally fulfilled his promise to render account on spending on water projects across the country by providing the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project with detailed information on spending of billions of naira on 292 projects between 2010 and 2016.
The Minister said there was the need for the incoming administration not only to continue with the transformation in the water sector, but also to ensure that all the ongoing water projects across the country are completed
Ochekpe said that although the Federal Government had done much in providing funds to complete some of the projects, the Ministry was still partnering with private investors to complete projects that were not yet completed
Senator Joshua Lidani, representing Gombe South Senatorial District, who also is a member of the Senate Committee on Water Resources, made the commendation during a budget defence by the Minister of Water Resources, Sarah Reng Ochekpe, in the National Assembly Complex on March 4, 2014
The statement by Ale, detailing the papers presented at the seminar, which is the maiden one for the association, and titled: Why water projects fail, reads: The need to justify the spending of the government cost-benefit-impact realities of the investment expended on water projects in Nigeria necessitated the seminar organised by the well concerned stakeholders and practitioners in water industry