The Adamawa Government said it
would partner the World Bank to
spend 7.5 million dollars (about
N3.54 billion) to fund agriculture
programmes in the state.
This was revealed on Friday by the
state’s Commissioner for
Agriculture and Natural Resources,
Mr Waziri Ahmadu, at the
commencement of training for staff
and stakeholders of Fadama 111 –
Second Additional Financing (AF11)
project for North-East in Yola.
Ahmadu said that the state
government would benefit from the
financial support by improving on
food security and livelihood of
Internal Displaced Persons (IDPs) in
the state as 7.5 million dollars was
a huge sum of money to support
communities in the state with,
especially at this time that the
country was experiencing recession.
“The World Bank’s aim of improving
food security and agriculture
restoration was in line with the
state and Federal Government’s
agenda to improve the livelihood of
the IDPs through agriculture.I am
assuring the World Bank team of
the state government’s
collaboration to make sure that the
project succeeds and is completed
in good time.” He said.
Earlier, the Project Engineer and
AF11 Desk Officer, Mr Ibrahim
Alkali, said that AF11 would utilise
existing institutional structure of
the ministry of agriculture at
federal and state levels to
coordinate the project
implementation.
The commissioner said that the
government would pay its
counterpart fund and that
arrangements were ongoing to pay
for other outstanding projects of
about N100 million.
He thanked the World Bank team
led by Dr Adetunji Oredipe for its
support, assuring that the project
would be implemented successfully.