Abuja — The inability of five South-South states, including Akwa Ibom, Bayelsa, Delta, Edo and Rivers to provide a counterpart fund of N1 billion, may rob them of a N2.4 billion European Union(EU) fund for water projects in the Niger Delta region.
Packaged under the Niger Delta Support Programme-(NDSP)-Water Sanitation (WS), the projects were designed in such a way that each of the states was expected to pay N200 million as counterpart funds.
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