By Nafisat Makinde
Honourable Jeremiah Umaru, the Deputy Chairman of the House Committee on Public Accounts, on Wednesday, 5th of February, 2025, has expressed appreciation to President Bola Tinubu for signing the bill creating the North Central Development Commission (NCDC). He gave the commendation in an interview with the newsmen in Abuja.
NewsAblaze reports that President of the Senate, Godswill Akpabio, had on Tuesday, during plenary, announced that President Tinubu assented to the NCDC Bill, 2024.
The bill seeks to strengthen the economy and infrastructural development of the North-Central geopolitical zone.
We appreciate the president for signing the bill. The bill will bring real development to the north-central region.
Umaru, who sponsored the bill, is a member of All Progressives Congress (APC) representing Nasarawa Eggon/Akwanga/Wamba Federal Constituency also extended gratitude to important people who helped to make the bill a reality, like the speaker of the house of representatives and some senators.
Secondly, I want to appreciate the Speaker of the House of Representatives Tajudeen Abbas, the co-sponsor of the bill in the Senate (Sen. Abba Moro), members from the house of representatives from the north central and north central governors for the massive support.
This is an opportunity to utilise and take maximum advantage of this commission because the whole idea is to rehabilitate, reconstruct and to resettle our people.
The commission will focus on real development for the region by harnessing the Niger and Benue Basins, other resources and potentials.
All those erosion and natural disasters experienced, instead of waiting for federal government intervention, the commission will swing into action immediately.
The Niger and Benue Basins, we want to see how we can harness them in terms of agriculture and so on, so that the north central’s potential will come out in full.
