Leadership (Abuja)
Samuel Peter Aruwan
7 April 2008
Kaduna — As part of the policy of domesticating ideals and visions of New Partnership for Africa's Development(NEPAD) and African Peer Review Mechanism(APRM) at state levels. Governor Mohammed Namadi Sambo launched the initiative in Kaduna promising his administration's unrelenting commitments towards the realisation of the initiatives in the state.
According to the governor who was represented by his deputy governor Mr. Patrick Ibrahim Yakowa, "It is an acknowledged fact that the history of Africa has not only been a tale of failed programmes, development plans or policy strategies, but woes, conflicts, drought, hunger, starvation, disease, and above all economic crisis".
He stressed that NEPAD is a historic opportunity that presents itself to Africa of the menace of underdevelopment that afflicts it for decades, noting his optimism that the problems could be surmounted, because Africa is blessed with enormous resources, especially capital, technology, material and human skills. These, according to Governor Sambo, are the resources required to launch a global war on poverty and underdevelopment.
He said that "The ingredients needed to mobilise and engage these resources properly are bold, committed and purposeful leadership. Therefore to change African situation for the better, is a challenge and collective task before every one of us. At the state level, we have identified ourselves with the goals of NEPAD particularly in the eradication of wide spread and severe poverty, promoting accelerated growth and sustainable development, restoration of peace, security and stability not only in the state but in the continent in general".
On the part of the state, he maintained that the state government in conjunction with NEPAD will support the entrenchment of good governance, strengthening of democratic institutions, rehabilitation and construction of infrastructural facilities and redefining of relationship with other development partners particularly in the private sector.
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