By Chioma Umeha
Minister of Health, Prof. Isaac Adewole, has said
that a high-powered task force is to be inaugurated by President Muhammadu
Buhari to implement a six-month Marshal Plan to rebuild the Northeast in four
critical areas.
The minister explained that the Marshal Plan is to
address the massive destruction of facilities in the water, health and
environment sectors by Boko Haram insurgents in the three most affected states
of Borno, Yobe and Adamawa.
Prof. Adewole, disclosed this at the weekend in
Maiduguri; while delivering an address on Operationalization of Saving One
Million Lives Programme for Results (SOML-PFR) workshop in the Northeast.
He said the president has already approved the
inauguration of a Task Force for the Northeast saying, “The task force is the
sub-unit of the Presidential Committee on the Northeast.”
The Minister said that the Task force would work
under the umbrella of the Presidential Initiative for the North-East which
would be inaugurated by the President Muhammadu Buhari soon.
