Erosion: Kano Govt pays N500m counterpart fund to NEWMAP

As part of its effort to address the menace of erosion, Kano state government has made payment of N500m as counterpart funding to the Nigerian Erosion and Watershed Management Project (NEWMAP).

Kano state Governor Dr. Abdullahi Umar Ganduje disclosed this Monday at the official Commissioning and handing over ceremony of Gandu -Tukun tawa – Zoo road erosion and flood control project executed by the federal government at municipal/ kumbotso local government area.

Ganduje who was represented by his deputy Dr  Nasiru Gawuna maintained that the move  was part of the collective engagement between the federal government and World Bank to check issues connected with environmental degradation.

  He however stated that in complementing the effort of the federal government to address erosion and floods, the Present administration had also constructed 65 drainages across the 44 local government areas of the state and ensured sustenance of annual clearance of major and minor drainages to avert threat of flood in the state.

“to this end, Kano state government employed over 1000 Sanitation Vanguards for effective implementation of Public health laws in the State plus the 100 Forest Guards being employed by the State to manage forest formation, ” he said.

Earlier, the Minister of state for labour and employment Professor Stephen Oseni said the project was one of the ecological intervention projects approved by Mr. President to check the erosion menace and flooding  as well as to improve the environmental condition of the areas after years of untold hardship and neglect.

” the cardinal objective of this administration is also hinged on addressing the infrastructural deficit which Ecological Fund Office is equally complementing and pursuing with all vigour especially in tackling ever growing ecologucal  and environmental Challenges across the Country ” he stated.

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