The World bank has donated the sum of 50 million dollars to assist the six insurgent affected North-Eastern states of Borno, Yobe, Adamawa, Bauchi, Taraba and Gombe under the FADAMA programme.
The Team Leader, Dr. Adetunji Oredipe who stated this while speaking to newsmen, said the reason for carrying out such project was to deal with the negative impact of insurgency that had affected the people in those states.
According to him, “the project is a combined effort of the Federal Government and International Community to revive livelihood in the North-East due to losses incurred as a result of the activities of insurgents.”
He said the World Bank was targeting 600 communities and 24,000 households in the North-East region of Nigeria.
“Our idea is to work with 600 communities in the six states and we have agreed to do more in the directly affected States- Borno, Yobe, Adamawa and do a little in Taraba, Bauchi and Gombe who are the receivers of the displaced people”, Oredipe stated.
“For us as World Bank, you know we are not into humanitarian programme, but we support activities based on needs”, he added.
