Vice-President Namadi Sambo yesterday decried the high number of abandoned Federal Government projects.
He said over 12,000 federal projects, valued at over N7.8trillion, litter the country.
The projects were at various stages of completion when they were abandoned, he said.
To rectify the situation, the Vice-President yesterday inaugurated a Presidential Committee on Guidelines for the Management and Implementation of Federal Infrastructure Projects.
Sambo said henceforth federal projects would no longer be done in haphazard manner.
He said: “This government will ensure the implementation of the projects in line with reference standards with all necessary checks and balances to ensure relevance, quality, economy and efficiency and on principles of sustainability.
“It is for this purpose this committee of top professionals has been put together, based on the individual track records of its members.”
The Vice-President said the objective of the committee is to prepare a comprehensive standard guideline for federal infrastructural projects which Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) and workers would follow.
He said this is to ensure a successful delivery of such projects.
According to him, the guideline will involve a review of policies, legal as well as the regulatory documents, examination of institutional structures, process and procedures and discussions.
The committee is to:
• examine extant policies and policy environment;
•determine their adequacy or otherwise and proffer recommendations for improvement; and
•examine extant legal and regulatory arrangements to determine their adequacy or otherwise.
It will also make recommendations for improvement.
Members of the committee include the Vice President, who is the Chairman and Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Senator Ayim Pius Ayim.
Others are: Ministers of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Finance, Justice, Mines and Steel, National Planning, Power, Works; as well as the Special Adviser to the President on Technical Matters.
By Courtesy Of: The Nation
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