The North East Development Commission (NEDC) has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Mutual Commitment Group (MCG), a Chinese company, for the rebuilding of infrastructure destroyed by Boko Haram terrorists in the North East region, as well as the ongoing reconstruction, rehabilitation, and resettlement of millions of internally displaced persons (IDPs) and other victims of Boko Haram.
The NEDC chairman, Maj. Gen. Paul Tarfa (rtd), disclosed on Tuesday after a closed-door meeting with newly reconstituted board members of the commission and the management team of MCG, led by its group managing director, Mr. Long Liu, at the conference hall of the NEDC in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital.
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Tarfa said the MoU became imperative to scale up the people-oriented interventions being executed by the commission within the six states of Borno, Yobe, Adamawa, Gombe, Bauchi, and Taraba.
According to the NEDC chairman, the over-one-decade atrocities perpetrated by the insurgents in the region were very alarming, adding that a holistic approach is required to address most of the short- and long-term durable solutions.
He pointed out that the areas of collaboration include renewable energy and power generation, health care, education, agriculture, road construction, favourable climate, job creation, poverty alleviation, rehabilitation, and resettlement.
The managing director of MCG, Mr. Liu, said, “We are at the NEDC office together with my entourage as development partners to sign an MoU on infrastructure, industry, and regional development projects in the North East subregion.”