Home NEWS FCT Minister Challenges NIPSS Participants To Offer Solutions To Local Governance

FCT Minister Challenges NIPSS Participants To Offer Solutions To Local Governance

FCT MInister, Muhammad Musa Bello

The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Malam Muhammad Musa Bello has challenged participants of the National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies (NIPSS), Senior Executive Course 44 to proffer solutions to the challenges confronting governance at the Local Government level.

The Minister, who spoke today, May 16 during a courtesy visit by a delegation of the course participants, led by Professor Sunday Ochoche in Abuja, said that governance at the local level was fraught with many challenges.

He however, expressed optimism that Course 44 would proffer solutions that would strengthen governance at that tier of government based on the theme of the 2022 Senior Executive Course which is “Strengthening Local Governance in Nigeria: Challenges, Opinions and Opportunities.”

Malam Musa Bello noted that Local Governments, or Area Councils, as they are called in the FCT, by being a tier of government closest to the citizenry, have very strategic roles to play in delivering dividends of democracy to the grassroots populace.

He listed some of the basic dividends to include basic education, agriculture, primary health care and security.

The Minister said that some of the most effective and efficient senior officials of the Federal Capital Administration were graduates of the Senior Executive Course and pledged the support and cooperation of the FCTA to the participants during their study tour of the FCT.

This was even as Professor Sunday Ochoche expressed appreciation to the FCT Minister for the high quality of participants sponsored by the FCTA to the Institute.

See also:  Another Veteran Nollywood Actor, Amaechi Muonagor, Dies At 62

He explained that every year, very senior and accomplished men and women from different sectors dedicate 10 months, interrogating critical national issues and proffering ways to advance the Nigerian project.

He stressed that effective local governance involved the Federal, State and Local Governments, traditional institutions, as well as Non-Governmental Organizations.

While thanking the FCT Minister for the warm reception, he invited the Minister to the NIPSS campus in Kuru for the presentation of the FCT Report by members of the Senior Executive Course 44.

Also, the FCTA Permanent Secretary, Olusade Adesola said that the Administration would be happy to tap into the wealth of knowledge and experience of the participants to build an FCT all Nigerians would be proud of.

According to him, FCT Administration is conscious of the expectations of Nigerians and it is determined to fulfil its mandate by repositioning the Administration to meet demands of a fast paced and very dynamic society.

Adesola said that the Administration has created the Economic Planning, Revenue Generation and PPP Secretariat to tap into and maximally utilize the many economic possibilities in the FCT.

Leave a Reply