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This is because the process of doing business in Nigeria especially in agricultural sector which is meant to open up our economy through diversification from crude oil, is too cumbersome due to ‘redtapsim’, as personal interests always override the implementation process, without recourse to the budget.
Thank God
for the availability of global model of Comprehensive Africa Agricultural
Development Program me (CAADP) guidelines which had been mandated for member
countries by the African Heads of state at Malabo, and is meant to remove
duplication and redtapsim in food security programme towards halving hunger
before 2025. This is to be done with right tracking of fund from donor agencies
cum evaluation system of total disbursement into agricultural development.
Presently,
in the system, from local government to state and federal government the tracking
of financial injections into the agricultural sector may be very difficult as
there is no connectivity and harmonization that ensure transparent evaluation,
and the whole thing is ridden with duplication, in terms of training's and
projects, thereby leading to wastages of the limited fund.
Nobody can
actually ascertain whether the Maputo declaration of 10% (of the budget being
spent on agriculture) is met in Nigeria as agriculture is on concurrent list
which means funding has to be contributed by the federal government, the states
and local government.
However, the
recently concluded meeting of stakeholders’ from both public and private sectors
that cut across ministry of Agriculture, Planning, finance and international
organizations, held in Abuja,has done justice to this strong challenge as our
system of planning and implementation was put on spot with the need to
reposition the ways and manners things were done for the progress of the sector.
All
summations was tailored towards achieving new agricultural investment plan
using the Nigeria green alternative policy on agriculture following a
well-structured system of a centralized planning, execution, monitoring and
evaluation at a glance thereby taking a paradigm shift from our old ways of doing
business.
It is imperative
that the resolutions at this meeting towards putting the new green alternative
agricultural policy of Nigeria in tandem with best global practices following
the CAADP-Malabo guidelines be speedily forwarded for immediate action that
will change the present situation in this sector.
Nigeria,
because of her seize in Africa must be bold to take a lead in the compliance to
the CAADP-Malabo declaration as a way of good example for others to follow
thereby trying to break away the continent from the shackle of poverty
resulting from lack of integrity in the system.
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