The
National Planning Minister, Dr. Abubakar Sulaiman, said yesterday that the
Federal Government will soon bring back the National Development Plan to ensure
sustainable infrastructural development.
The Nation reports the minister spoke through the commission’s Acting Secretary, Bassey Akpanyung, at
a one-day media workshop on “Strategic, sustainable promotion and marketing of
the National Integrated Infrastructure Master Plan (NIIMP).”
Sulaiman
said returning the National Development Plan was part of government’s strategy
to develop the nation’s infrastructure. He noted that the best infrastructure
the nation has had since independence were captured in the first four
development plans, which were terminated in the middle 1980s. According to him,
what the country has started with Vision 20-2020, Medium Term
Expenditure Framework and the Transformation Agenda is to return the country to
the “golden tradition of infrastructural development”.
The
minister said: “In pursuance of the ideal of sustainable development, the
administration adopted integrated and all inclusive approach to infrastructure
delivery as practiced in some other industrialized nations, to systematically
facilitate and promote economic growth and development.
“For
us as a government, we are convinced that the NIIMP, if effectively
implemented, will give us a win-win situation. In effect, government understood
the NIIMP itself, as a source of massive job opportunity and wealth creation in
a manner that recognize equity as well as promotes poverty reduction. However,
this can be achieved through the cooperation of all the stakeholders.
“Construction
of infrastructure projects across the geo-political zones and linking different
sectors potentially translate to economic growth and prosperity.”
He noted that in the
struggle to market “the unique investment opportunities NIIMP connotes, the
foremost among the strategic stakeholders is the media.”
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