Uju Kennedy-Ohanenye, minister of women affairs, says she does not know the states where a $500m World Bank project will be implemented.
Uju Kennedy-Ohanenye, minister of women affairs, could not list the six pilot states where a $500 million World Bank project will be implemented.
Kennedy-Ohanenye said the previous administration “lavished” the fund on meetings, advocacies, and consultancies. “The first $100 million, when I came in, I was not satisfied. It didn’t augur well with the vision of the new president’s Renewed Hope agenda,” she said. “But remember the project is called ‘Nigeria for women project’ and to me, the way I understand it, it was supposed to be used for projects.”Asked to reel out the six states where the implementation of the project will kick off, she said: “I will mention few because I don’t really know all of it…
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