Rewriting the history to depict a more sanitized system is the commitment made by the House of Representatives Committee on Ecological Funds.
The pledge was made on Thursday in Abuja during the Committee’s first meeting, which was presided over by Chairman Aminu Jaji.
Jaji promised to make sure the system is thoroughly cleaned in addition to performing the Committee’s regular monitoring duties.
He mentioned that the 10th House is now considering over fifty requests from members about how to deal with the environmental issues in their respective states.
According to him, people are using ecological projects as a way of making money.
“We as a Committee have to stop this. We have to carry out need assessment ourselves across the 36 States of the federation before funds can be disbursed for it. We’ll ensure that the narrative is changed”, he said.
While urging the Committee to focus on how to address the ecological challenges like desertification in the north, erosion in the South East among others in different parts of the country, the chairman charged its Committee to come up with innovation to tackle it.
The Committee promised to collaborate with all stakeholders including members of the immediate past Committee to see how ecological challenges in the country can be addressed.
Member of the committee, Hon. Julius Pondi who also chairs committee on environment while commending the leadership for selecting some technocrat to be part of the ecological funds Committee, advised that if only the chairman can be firm in his decisions, the Committee will achieve its desired result.
Other members of the Committee therefore pledged their commitment with the chairman to change the narrative by sanitising the system.
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