FG IS TO INVEST N178.9 BILLION IN TINUBU’S PLAN FOR REKINDLED HOPE

Babatunji Wusu –

According to the Federal Government, N178.9 billion will be used to carry out President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s eight priority areas of the Renewed Hope Agenda.

This information was disclosed in the executive summary of the 63-page FMSDIGA strategy plan 2024–2028, which was unveiled on Wednesday in Abuja by Zaphaniah Jisalo, Minister of Special Duties and Inter-Governmental Affairs.

The minister states that the main goals of the strategy plan are to ensure food security, eradicate poverty, promote economic growth and job creation, provide access to finance, and uphold the rule of law, justice, and anti-corruption posture.

According to Jisalo, his ministry is one of the three Federal Ministries tasked with helping to carry out the National Development Plan (NDP) 2021–2025 and President Tinubu’s developmental goals.

The minister also promised to closely supervise all national constituency initiatives as well as those of Ministries, Departments, and Agencies (MDAs).

He said: “On our own part as a ministry and as part of our mandates, is to monitor, do evaluation and also certify the payment.

“You know some of the projects are not in our ministry, they are in other ministries, we will collaborate with them to know what the national assemblies are doing.”