Kwara North: CKNG Inaugurates 11-Member Committee For Evaluation of Kwara 2020 Budget
The Coalition of Kwara North Groups has inaugurated 11-member committee to evaluation Kwara state 2020 budget.
The committee according to a statement jointly signed the Chairman, Comrade Musa Idris Buko and General Secretary, Comrade Mohammed Salihu will assess the distribution of developmental projects and other opportunities to ensure it is in line with the principles of equity, fairness and all-inclusiveness enshrined in the Constitution.
The statement read:
”Kwara North, comprises five local government areas of Baruten, Edu, Kaiama, Moro and Patigi. The area has the second largest population (31.90) and the greatest lànd portion (75.34%). Though endowed with lot of resources in terms of population, landmass, food/cash crops, livestock, fisheries, forestry, highest receipt of federal allocation and also the highest source of internally generated revenue (IGR) for Kwara State.
”Sadly however, Kwara North has been marginalized since the return of democracy in 1999 by successive administrations in terms of capital and developmental projects as well as opportunities that enhance capacity building of the human resources of our community.
”Against this background, CKNG inaugurates an Adhoc Committee of 11 personalities’to painstakingly peruse the 2020 Appropriation Bill of Reformation and Reconstruction submitted to Kwara State House of Assembly, by His Excellency the Executive Governor of the State on Wednesday, 18th December, 2019. This is to see the distribution of developmental projects’ and other opportunities to ensure it is in line with the principles of equity, fairness and all-inclusiveness enshrined in the Constitution.”
The committee will be chaired by Dr. Mahmud Umar Muhammad, a Deputy Director, Head, Information Systems and Management Division, Centre for Geodesy and Geodynamics at the National Space Research and Development Agency (NASRDA). While Barr. Bello Kabir has been named the Secretary.
Other members of the committee include Engr. Umar Faruq Idris, Mall. Mashoud Mahmud, Ahmed Usman Babakano, Abdullahi Shaba and Mall. Mohammed Dauda Baniya.
Others are Nur Muhammad Nur, Jegede Abdulazeez Adebayo, Hussein Nda Muhammad and Abdullahi Yunusa Lade
The terms of reference are;
To give a preliminary report of what the budget looks like with particular reference to Kwara North.
To identify the capital projects for Kwara North, its location(s), type and cost.
To determine fairness in distribution and allocation of resources for projects’ execution in comparison to other parts of the state.
To give quarterly or emergency progress reports of the committee, to be a reference point for CKNG’s advocacy and engagement with the appropriate authorities.
To submit a comprehensive report at the end of the assignment which ends with the budget circle.
Identify challenges, and make recommendations on how Kwara North benefits more in the future bugets.