The `Buhari Plan’ was launched in 2016 with a five-year lifespan.
Nearly 14 million people affected by insurgency are to benefit from President Muhammadu Buhari’s five-year recovery plan for states in the North East zone of the country.
Mr Mamza explained that the Federal Government through the African Development Bank in 2018 secured a flexible loan of 179.42 million U.S. dollars for North East Emergency Transition, Recovery and Peacebuilding. “This Programme is part of on-going Federal Government efforts toward North-East States Emergency Transition, Recovery and Peacebuilding, elaborated by the five-year programmatic `Buhari Plan’ of 2016.
“Also, the Programme is designed to help address the needs of an estimated 14 million affected people, including more than 2.3 million Internally Displaced Persons, of whom nearly 80 per cent are women, children, and youths and with special attention to rural households in Local Government Areas affected by the insurgency,” Mr Mamza said.
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