ATTENTION!!!
Dear Adamawa Residents,
Are you aware 10 federal projects in 2025 ERGP worth about ₦6.4 billion that were nominated for communities in the state but placed under agencies whose normal work does not match the projects.
The lines sit in the federal capital project schedule. Most are marked new. They cover roads, police stations, drainages, a solar minigrid, ICT centres, a school wall fence, classroom blocks, cash grants and mini stadiums.
The money is large enough to change daily life in the communities named. It is also large enough to disappear if nobody asks where the sites are.
The biggest single items are ₦1 billion for the rehabilitation of selected roads in Adamawa Central, assigned to the National Boundary Commission, and ₦1 billion for the construction and furnishing of four police stations and quarters in Fufore/Song, assigned to the National Productivity Centre. Another ₦900 million is for drainages in Fufore/Song, again under the National Productivity Centre.
A ₦600 million solar minigrid in Ganye and ₦400 million for POS and cash grants to youths and women in Mubi North, Mubi South and Maiha are both under the Federal College of Horticulture, Dadin-Kowa, in Gombe.
Expansion and equipping of ICT centres in Numan, Mayo Belwa and Ganye, at ₦600 million, is under the Nigeria Stored Products Research Institute, Ilorin.
Rural access roads to Gorobi and Tola in Mayo Belwa, at ₦500 million, are under the Border Communities Development Agency.
A ₦500 million wall fence at GDSS Fufore/Song and ₦500 million for classroom blocks in Gombi/Hong are also under the National Productivity Centre.
Three mini stadiums in Adamawa, at ₦400 million, are under the Nigerian Building and Road Research Institute.
Ilevbaoje Uadamen Imoukhuede, Founder of Monitng, said the pattern should worry anyone who lives in those communities. “When a boundary commission is given roads, a productivity centre is given police stations, and a horticulture college outside the state is given a minigrid and cash grants, citizens have a right to ask who is actually responsible for delivery. ₦6.4 billion is not a footnote. Adamawa people should be able to point to the site, the contractor and the work on the ground.”
He said nomination is not the same as completion. A line in the budget only matters if a community can find it.
Residents of Fufore, Song, Ganye, Numan, Mayo Belwa, Gombi, Hong, Mubi North, Mubi South, Maiha and Adamawa Central can start with simple questions. Where exactly is the project? Who was awarded the contract? Has any money been released? Has work started?
Visit the places named in the schedule. Take note of what is there. If a road, station, classroom, borehole or stadium is missing, say so. Ask your councillor, local government chairman and federal lawmaker for the location and timeline. Ask the implementing agency to publish the site, the contractor, the amount released and the expected completion date.
Public funds are harder to explain away when the people who will use the project are the ones watching it.
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