Abbas: National Assembly Planning Legal Framework to Tackle Abandoned Projects

*Akpabio says Nigeria doing well in education despite challenges, pledges improved funding Sunday Aborisade in Abuja

Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Tajudeen Abbas, yesterday, expressed concerns over the spate of abandoned projects all over Nigeria and said it was putting in place, a legal framework to tackle the scourge.
Abbas stated this in Abuja at the Third Graduation Ceremony organised by the National Institute for Democratic and Legislative Institute (NILDS) for Higher National Diploma (HND) graduates.
He said, “On the flip side of our responsibilities as parliamentarians, we are concerned about the abandonment of numerous projects whose completion would have added to the much-desired dividend of democracy and consolidation of good governance in Nigeria.
“As members of the 10th National Assembly, therefore, we are committed to putting in place a legal framework that enables effective budget preparation, enactment, implementation, and oversight.
“We, therefore, encourage MDAs to ensure that the projects and programmes are informed by bottom-up consultation. This will ensure that projects and programmes budgeted for reflect the needs of the sector MDAs have jurisdiction over.”
President of the Senate, Godswill Akpabio, who was represented by his deputy, Senator Jibrin Barau, said despite challenges in the nation’s education sector, the country was still doing well in global ranking.
Akpabio said, “Despite the lingering challenges in the nation’s educational sector, data shows that Nigeria has recorded better performance in its Human Development Index in the UNDP 2024 report than it did in 2019.”
He, however, pledged that the 10th  National Assembly has put machinery in motion to ensure proper funding in the sector through appropriation in the next fiscal year.

“Supporting the educational sector through increased funding will therefore enable our country to record significant transformational changes,” he said.