Minister Directs Devt Commissions To Spread Projects To Grassroots

Minister of Regional Development, Engr Abubakar Momoh, has called connected determination improvement commissions to guarantee fairness and inclusivity successful the discharge of their mandates.

He stressed the request to see each communities to execute sustainable improvement and nationalist cohesion.

Momoh gave the directive astatine the opening of a two-day store connected the reappraisal of the argumentation roadmap of the North Central Development Commission (NCDC) held from October 7 to 8, 2025, successful Lafia, Nasarawa State.

He said President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s medication was committed to ensuring that improvement was not concentrated successful municipality areas alone, but extended to each region, state, and assemblage crossed the country.

The curate besides urged the commissions to harness the unsocial strengths and resources of their regions — including agriculture, coagulated minerals, and quality superior — to thrust inclusive growth.

“For the North Central region, this is simply a infinitesimal of renewal. This portion is blessed with immense cultivation potential, coagulated minerals and resilient people, which clasp the cardinal to nutrient information for the full country,” helium added.

While commending the NCDC for processing a strategical roadmap for determination transformation, the curate assured the committee of the ministry’s support, provided it remains focused connected its halfway mandate.

“Once you are doing the close thing, you person our support; it’s lone erstwhile you deviate that we volition gully back, due to the fact that the ministry volition beryllium held accountable if things spell incorrect with the improvement commissions,” helium warned.

In his remarks, the curate of State for Regional Development, Uba Maigari Ahmadu, advised the participants to fortify partnerships with authorities governments, backstage assemblage players, donor agencies and section communities.

He emphasised accountability, transparency and semipermanent readying arsenic cardinal pillars for sustainable progress.

The ministry’s imperishable secretary, Dr Mary Ogbe, identified 5 absorption areas for the commission: argumentation coherence and prioritisation; evidence-based show management; section contented and assemblage ownership; concern and financing and sustainability with taste preservation.

The managing manager of the NCDC, Dr Cyril Tsenyil, said the committee had begun laying a beardown instauration since its inauguration successful August.

“We person established an operational structure, reached retired to cardinal stakeholders and formed strategical partnerships. Our partner, Spring, has provided seasoned experts to usher our discussions successful cardinal thematic areas, including governance, accountability and bid arsenic a instauration for sustainable development,” helium said.