Will talk lead to action?
State capacity is a measure of what a state is capable of doing. In Nigeria, talking has long been far ahead of doing. The report is from ThisDay.
Nation's Quest For Good InfrastructureThe deplorable situation of roads, housing and urban development was brought to the fore recently at a gathering of major stakeholders in the sector during the meeting of the National Council on Works, Housing and Urban Development in Lafia. The meeting brought to the front burner the challenges faced in the development of the country...
[T]he Nasarawa State Governor, Aliyu Akwe Doma, called on stakeholders to ensure that infrastructural development is pursued with vigor. He challenged the conference to make contribution that will lead to the discovery of effective strategies for infrastructural development in the country...
According to the minister, infrastructural development has become a recurring challenge to successive administration in the country. "The administration of President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua has identified infrastrural development as the basic foundation and prime driver of all socio-economic plan activities this is because of the pervasive impact of infrastructure in all human endeavours...
The minister further said that the sector is the cornerstone and pivot for the achievement and realization of government's vision and blueprint for the nation's emergence in year 2020 as one of the world's largest economies...
He said to address these issues, a number of measures were initiated to tackle them. These include the reorganization of ministerial parastatal such as the Federal Mortgage Bank of Nigeria (FMBN), Federal Housing Authority (FHA) and the Federal Road Maintenance Agency (FERMA).To the minister, these measures were taken to strengthen and reposition the agency for delivering their mandate to the people...
At the end of six days of deliberation and brainstorming in Lafia, the conference came out with a communiqué... [calling on government at all tiers to take action on] the acute shortage of housing in the country, the establishment and resuscitation of trade schools and skill acquisition centers... need for the inclusion of local content policy to be evolved in the construction industry for human capacity building and technological enhancement...
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