Taraba State government yesterday stormed the ongoing two-day Northeast Zonal Technical meeting on Medium-Term National Development Plan (2021-2025) with a pledge of assistance with Governor Darius Ishaku’s developmental magic.
According to the Commissioner for Budget and Economic Planning, Solomon Elisha at the ongoing two-day Zonal event, Governor Ishaku had rescued the state from total decay of neglect, adding that the essence of the parley was for each of the region to showcase its developmental achievements.
Addressing the gathering at the Gombe international hotel in Gombe State, Solomon said the parley would afford all involved states to showcase their achievements while contributing to the federal government’s agenda 2050, “it’s expedient that sub-nationals are given opportunity to contribute towards this plan.
“We shall make judicious use of this opportunity; we shall ensure that Taraba not previously captured is now captured in both the federal government’s 2021-2025 and that of 2050 agenda,” he said.
He later told newsmen that his boss met many moribund government projects on assuming office, saying: “as I speak with you today, Governor Ishaku has made do with his “rescue mission in the state.”
In his keynote address, Governor Muhammad Inuwa Yahaya appreciated the federal government’s move for the exercise he described as: “a new approach towards achieving a more inclusive and effective participation of states and local governments at different stages of the ongoing process of developing and implementation of the Medium-Term National Development Plan (MTNDP) 2021-2025 and Agenda 2050 in order to deepen ownership and sustainability.”
Represented by his deputy, Dr. Manassah Jattau, Governor Inuwa disclosed that his administration, in its bid to transform the state launched a 10-year development plan tagged: DEVAGOM which now tallies with the federal government’s national plan 2021-2025 and Agenda 2050.
“The plan articulated the present and future needs of our people through a robust stakeholder engagement at ward, local government, state, national and international levels,” he disclosed.
He however added that: “Gombe is now in the process of preparing Medium-Term Sector Strategy (MTSS) that will provide necessary link between DEVAGOM and our budgeting process and enable a robust tracking of the plan.”
In his opening address, Gombe State’s Special Adviser on Economic planning, Dr. Ishaku, represented by the Permanent Secretary, ministry of Finance and Economic planning, Jalo Ibrahim explained that the essence of the parley was to gather information from the regions towards Nigeria’s agenda 2050.
“It is to harvest ideas from states. This is an avenue to showcase development in Gombe.
“It will also afford us opportunity to align our DEVAGOM plan with federal government’s 2021-2025 national development plan and Agenda Nigeria 2050,” he stated.
