Vice-president Yemi Osinbajo has inaugurated the National Steering Committee (NSC) of the National Development Plan (NDP) 2021 – 2025 with a view to providing necessary policy guidance and leadership for implementation of the plan.
Laolu Akande, Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Office of the Vice President, disclosed this in a statement on Tuesday in Abuja.
President Muhammadu Buhari, had in December 2021, inaugurated the NDP.
Osinbajo, who chairs the NSC, said that the aim of establishing the committee and NDP Implementing Unit, was to lay a solid foundation that would drive an effective implementation of the NDP.
“The overall aim of establishing the NSC is to lay a strong institutional base, structures and systems that would drive and ensure efficient and effective implementation of the targets in the NDP and towards building a prosperous country.
“The NSC is required to provide the necessary policy guidance and leadership for effective and successful implementation of the Plan.
“It is a testament to the determination and commitment of the government to provide the desired political will and leadership for effective implementation of the new national development plan.”
Osinbajo said that the committee was a national assignment with institutional membership that would outlive the administration.
According to him, the NSC would in a few months hand over to a new administration.
“This calls for dedication and hard work to lay a solid foundation in the relatively short time left.
“Going forward, the Federal Government is determined to make a paradigm shift by ensuring that agencies and institutions make necessary commitments and account for the level of implementation of programmes and projects within their respective sectors, especially those that were admitted into the NDP with a view to increasing and improving infrastructure stock in Nigeria.
“We may also recall that a pillar of this government’s commitments is to reduce poverty by moving 100 million people out of poverty to the path of prosperity in 10 years, by the end of 2030.
“In this regard, NDP 2021 – 2025 was designed to lift 35 million people out of poverty and generate 21 million jobs by the end of 2025.”
The vice-president listed the specific objectives of the committee which included to ensure efficient management of the implementation process of the Plan and to reduce bureaucratic processes in the governance process.
“To gradually professionalise planning functions for capacity sustainability, to begin the process of institutionalisation of the plan within the MDAs and to facilitate manpower development and adequate utilisation in the public service to drive the implementation of the plan.
“To exercise cooperation and coordination towards effective implementation of national development plans by all MDAs,’’ he said.
Ministers of State for Budget and National Planning, Clem Ikanade Agba, is the Vice Chairman of the NSC.
Minister of Power, Abubakar Aliyu, Minister of State for Transportation, Ademola Adegoroye, Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment, Niyi Adebayo and Minister of Health, Osagie Ehanire are also members of the committee.
Others include Adeyemi Adeniran, Statistician-General of the Federation, Oyebisi Oluseyi, Executive Director of Nigeria Network of NGOs, Francis Meshioye, President of Manufacturers Association of Nigeria, President of ALGON, Kolade Alabi, and other representatives of MDAs.
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