The United Nations Development Programme has rated Yobe State high on the quality of post-Boko Haram insurgency reconstruction, rehabilitation and recovery projects.
The UNDP Resident Representative in Nigeria, Mohamed Yahya, said in Damaturu that the global agency was particularly impressed by the quality of the state’s health and education reconstruction and recovery projects.
Yahya was in Damaturu Tuesday on a facility tour of the 375-bed Maternity and Child Healthcare Complex reconstructed by Governor Mai Mala Buni’s administration.
“The two pillars of Governor Buni’s development agenda, investing in health and education, are in line with the Sustainable Development Goals Programme,” he observed.
“The investment in the health sector is pretty impressive and Yobe State is back on the path of development after the devastation by the insurgency.
“I am quite impressed with the potential of the facilities dealing with maternal and child care challenges,” the UNDP representative said.
Earlier, Buni said his administration embarked on a massive reconstruction of the facilities to speed up the reconstruction, rehabilitation and recovery programme, following the destructions by the Boko Haram insurgency.
Buni said, “It is gratifying that as of today, all the displaced communities in the state, except the Mallundunari community in the Gujba Local Government Area, have returned and resettled.
“This was facilitated by the reconstruction of infrastructure, including the local government secretariats, police stations, hospitals, schools, water facilities, markets and other public structures carried out by the state government and supported by some development partners.”
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