Nasarawa State has been enlisted among states in the country that benefitted $10 million each from the World Bank Fiscal Transparency Grant.
The state governor, Abdullahi Sule, disclosed this at a sensitisation workshop organised by the National Population Commission on Enumeration Area Demarcation (EAD) in Lafia.
According to the governor, even though the state has missed out on similar interventions in the past, his administration was committed to exploiting every available intervention programme that was of benefit to the state.
Sule announced that Nasarawa State has benefitted from the World Bank State Fiscal Transparency, Accountability and Sustainability (SIFTAS), with his administration dedicating the funds to things that would make impact on the lives of the people.
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He specifically said his administration would take N250 million out of the money, as earlier promised, to pay gratuity of retirees who may have lost hope of ever getting their entitlement, as well as N350 million each for the construction of markets in Nasarawa Eggon and Akwanga.
“I am happy to tell you that Nasarawa State has just received its own $10 million. I told the Accountant General not to touch it for everything else.
“That money will be dedicated for things that will make impact to the people of Nasarawa State, things that you can touch and feel,” the governor stated.
He added that, even though Nasarawa lost out on several other intervention programmes, the state has also recorded some success in some areas.
He said an organisation of the United Nations, coming to Nigeria for the first time, selected Panda in Karu Local Government Area to build a school.
“There are so many other things that are coming up, that Nasarawa State is qualified but there are so many other that we were losing.
“That is why we are not resting, we are following every of the intervention programme,” the governor said.
He said his administration was lucky to have experts in development work, who are assisting the state in that direction.
