The governors, who met in the Adamawa State capital, Yola, under the North East Governors’ Forum, from Thursday afternoon to around midnight, said the Federal Government gave to the Northeast region a paltry 0.35 percent of proposed N13.02 trillion for capital projects.
Asserting that such a provision “means that Northeast is highly shortchanged,” the governors demanded the National Assembly to review the 2021 budget “in the spirit of equity and inclusion,” and mandated the Northeast caucus of both the Senate and House of Representatives to take immediate steps to “redress this imbalance.”
According to the communique, the Forum noted with dismay “the slow or outright nonexistent progress on the pace of the roads already allocated in the subregion,” and called for immediate reactivation and review of comatoes existing road contracts in the subregion.
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