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FG approves refund of N16bn spent on federal roads to Borno govt

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Federal Government, on Wednesday, in Abuja, approved N16.77bn as reimbursement to Borno State Government for the money spent on the construction of federal roads.

Senior Special Assistant to the Vice President on Media and Publicity, Laolu Akande, disclosed this after this week’s Federal Executive Council meeting presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari at the State House, Abuja.

Akande who did not give assurances of when the monies will be disbursed to the Northeastern state said the memo was put forward by the President himself.

However, the disbursement will only follow a debt sustainability analysis to be carried out by the Debt Management Office.

He said, “The council approved the president’s memo for the reimbursement of funds expended by the state government for federal projects and its total sum of N16.77bn which will be processed after a debt sustainability analysis has been carried out by the debt management office leading to the issuance of debt instruments and a promissory note of the same value to be approved by the National Assembly.”

On his part, Minister of Science, Technology and Innovation, Olorunimbe Mamora, revealed that the council approved an action plan for the deployment of technology to fight climate change.

He said, “The memo brought before the council by our Ministry has to do with the National technological action plan for climate change mitigation and adaptation in Nigeria’s most vulnerable sectors.

“Of course, we all know climate change is a global issue and the entire global community is worried. It’s becoming necessary for nations to start taking actions particularly geared towards mitigation and adaptation. To achieve this, you have to leverage technology. To reduce greenhouse gas emissions, you will need technology and that’s why we’re talking about renewable energy.”

Mamora lamented that Nigeria’s technology required an upgrade to meet up with global adaptation standards.

“So one of the very first things that we had to do in our situation was to set up a committee that would look into our technology.

“Our technology needs to meet up with those processes to achieve mitigation and adaptation.

“And that’s exactly what we did. We now have a plan of action in place, which we presented to the Council and was approved,” he explained.

 

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