Jonathan's ex-minister speaks after meeting Buhari

- The African Development Bank (AfDB) said it has so far invested 258 million on rehabilitation projects in northeast

- AfDB president, Akinwumi Adesina, made this known after meeting President Buhari on Tuesady, April 23

- Adesina explained every dollar that Nigeria gives to the bank, it lends the country 15 dollars in return

The African Development Bank (AfDB) has so far invested 258 million dollars towards the rehabilitation of damaged infrastructural facilities in the northeast region of the country.

The president of AfDA, Nigeria’s Dr Akinwumi Adesina, disclosed this when he fielded questions from State House correspondents in Abuja on Tuesday, April 23, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports.

He said the affected areas of intervention included health, education, sanitation and water which were damaged or destroyed as a result of the destructive activities of the insurgents in the region.

“We have also invested heavily in the northeast of Nigeria. We have put in almost 258 million dollars to support the rehabilitation both in terms of health, education, sanitation and water as a way of reviving areas that have been battered," he said.

Adesina, who had earlier met behind closed-doors with President Buhari at the Aso Villa, Abuja, said the bank had also invested heavily in mobilising financing for the country.

He revealed that the African Investment Forum which was organised by the bank in 2018, had succeeded in mobilising about 38.7 billion dollars of investments to Africa, adding that about 7.1 billion dollars of the amount would be invested in Nigeria.

Adesina, who commended President Buhari for his support to the AfDA, pledged that the bank would continue to support Nigeria in her efforts towards boosting power supply in the country.

“We are in the period of general capital increase for the bank and with that support, we believe you will see a different Africa completely under this new general capital increase of the bank.

“One of the things that we said was that Nigeria’s contribution under the last general capital increase of the bank was 360 million dollars but we lend to Nigeria 4.5 billion dollars, almost 15.5%.

“Every dollar that Nigeria gives to the bank, we lend 15 dollars in return, so it’s a great investment.

“I assured Mr President that under the new general capital increase of the bank, we are talking to our investors about this, so if we get enough money, hundreds of people will be connected to electricity,’’ he stated.

On new strategy Nigeria needs to adopt to get power sector right, Adesina said “the country needs to get the tariff structure because if you don’t have good cost reflective tariff structure, investments from private sector becomes very difficult in the energy sector’’.

The AfDA president also stressed the need to address the liquidity constraints in the power sector.

“We in the bank have invested over 400 million dollars in the transmission company of Nigeria to support it.

“But at the end of the day it’s to diversify the energy sector that we have.

“We have gas here, we should use a lot of those gas; we also have hydro and solar. The African Development Bank is investing heavily right now in the north, in the Jigawa area in solar projects.

“So, God is good to Africa and He gave us tremendous amount of sunshine, water, everything is good for Africa, all we need to do is take a cable and connect to the sun and we will be fine.

“So, we just have to optimize the renewable energy potential that we have,’’ he added.

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Earlier, Legit.ng reported that President Buhari welcomed the acceptance of the UN Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres to co-chair a Special Session to raise 50 billion dollars to fund the inter-basin water transfer from Central Africa to revive the Lake Chad.

Malam Garba Shehu, the president’s Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, in a statement, said the president stated this when he received the reply of the Secretary-General to his earlier letter on the matter.

Guterres’ response was presented to President Buhari through the AfDB president.

President Buhari said such a Special Forum was necessary in view of the size of capital required for the project which was unavailable to the Lake Chad Basin countries.

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