The World Bank has put together a group of consultants to determine whether the level of progress recorded is commensurate to the funds made available for specified projects in Lagos state.
Here are the details
The World Bank has concluded plan for final audit of some of the
projects undertaken by the Lagos State Government under the Lagos
Metropolitan Development and Governance Projects (LMDGP), New Telegraph
has learnt. Already, the bank has consulted a group of consultants to
help in this regards.
This newspaper learnt that a professor of Urban and Regional Planning
at the University of Ibadan will lead other firms and the World Bank
team in carrying out the audit. The World Bank, on July 6, 2006, had
approved an International Development Association (IDA) credit of $200
million for the Lagos Metropolitan Development and Governance project in
Nigeria for the upgrade of nine slum settlements within the metropolis.
Nine slums in Lagos State, which benefited in the projects are
Amukoko, Ajegunle, Agege, Badia, Ijeshatedo, Iwaya, Ilaje, Bariga and
Makoko. The consulting professor, according to an impeccable source who
did not want his name in print, is already finetuning the process with
other firms to ensure an holistic approach towards the audit of the $200
million World Bank financed projects.
The consultants are expected to turn in their report within three
months. The source said: “The World Bank team will be available for the
auditing and in about three months, the team is expected to come out
with its findings.
Major reason for the audit is just to ascertain that the $200 million
approved by the World Bank for the projects is “commensurate with the
projects executed so that it will give more states the opportunity to
access such grant for development in the future.” The $200 million
credit facility from the World Bank is for increasing sustainable access
to basic urban services through investments in critical infrastructure.
Some of the projects undertaken by LMDGP with the grant in some of
the slum communities
included the construction of multi-storey school
blocks, drainage channels, primary health care centres, roads and bore
holes, among other projects. The project, which began in July 2006,
terminated in September 2013. While some residents had expressed joy
over the construction of roads, drainage, schools, boreholes and other
empowerment projects in the communities, others described the projects
as “unsatisfactory.”
The projects has three components. The first, which is
infrastructure, is for reducing flooding in eastern Lagos through
support for the cleaning of all six drainage systems and the
reconstruction of two of the six systems, and the development of a long
term technical solution to flooding; enhance the efficiency of the solid
waste sector by segregating collection, transfer and disposal of solid
waste and initiate private sector participation in solid waste transfer
and disposal. It also seeks to rehabilitate neighborhood roads, drains,
schools, and clinics and support improved access to water for over one
million slum dwellers in nine selected slums
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