The House of Representatives Committee on Ecological funds, has during its inaugural meeting pledged to sanitise the system.
Chairman of the Committee, Hon Aminu Jaji assured Nigerians that the Committee will not only carry out its usual oversight function but will ensure the system is properly sanitised by changing the narrative from what it used to be.
He said more than fifty request from members on how to address the ecological challenges in their States are already before the 10th House.
According to him, people are using ecological projects as a way of making money.
“We as a committee have to stop this. We have to carry out need assessment ourselves across the 36 States of the federation before funds can be disbursed for it. We will ensure that the narrative is changed,” he said.
While urging the committee to focus on how to address the ecological challenges like desertification in the north, erosion in the South East among others in different parts of the country, the chairman charged its committee to come up with innovative ideas to tackle it.
The Committee promised to collaborate with all stakeholders including members of the immediate past committee to see how ecological challenges in the country can be addressed.
Member of the committee, Hon. Julius Pondi who also chairs committee on environment while commending the leadership for selecting some technocrat to be part of the ecological funds Committee, advised that if only the chairman can be firm in his decisions, the Committee will achieve its desired result.
Other members of the Committee also pledged their commitment to work with the chairman to sanitise the system.
