Mr Suleiman Adamu, the Minister of Water Resources, has expressed worry that delay in passage of the National Water Resources Bill is a major setback to actualisation reforms in the water resources sector.
He said that with regards to river basins, the ministry was trying to make them more relevant with emphasis on agriculture and rural development, using the concept of Transforming Irrigation Management in Nigeria . “We introduced the Songhai model which some of them have started implementing, it’s all coming in phases depending on the on how much money they are able to get from the allocation.READ ALSO:Adamu said that Federal Government had begun negotiations for partial commercialisation of the river basins, adding that a comprehensive study in conjunction with the National Council on privatisation with the Bureau for Public Enterprises was being analysed.
“I always remind them that they should know that they are enablers, and not a limited liability company, when they are giving their progress report, you hear them say they have built water bottling company, and I tell them no. The minister said Federal Government was also discussing modalities to see how private investors could come into the tourism sector, with the use of land and dams as resorts and overall economic development.
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