By Favour Nnabugwu
House of Representatives Committee on Millennium Development Goals, MDGs, has lamented the paucity of funds from the Federal Government towards achieving MDGs' targets by 2015.
Chairman, House Committee on MDGs, Hassan Doguwa, who spoke in Abuja weekend blamed the Federal Government for defaulting on the promises it made to use the debt relief gains in servicing the MDG projects.
Doguwa, who spoke when he led other members of the committee on an oversight visit to the Universal Basic Education Commission, UBEC, called for concerted efforts from the Federal Government and other stakeholders to achieve the MDGs.
He also alleged that government had not been prompt in the release of funds to ministries, departments and agencies to meet the MDGs target.
Dogara said: "Going by the number of the ministries we have visited, I want to be very frank with you and Nigerians that because of the epileptic releases of funds by the Federal Government to agencies, the MDGs are very unlikely to be achieved.
"MDGs, like you know, are capital intensive projects; these are issues to do with medical care, health care delivery, development of education facilities and structures, teachers' training and fighting killer diseases."
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I pray God touch their heart to do the things they were told to do.The devil is the one controlling most of them
is it that the reps are not part of the federal government? if they mean the executive arm, then dnt they have a role to play in effective governance?
who else will they blame? the federal government of course.they are trully at fault.i support the reps