The FADAMA III Second Additional Financing (AFII) Programme has called on beneficiary states in the North East Food Security and Livelihood Emergency Support Project to pay their counterpart funds.
Mr Ibrahim Alkali, North East Desk Officer of FADAMA, who made the call in Abuja on Tuesday, said that the payment of the funds would facilitate the fulfilment of the programme.
He said that the World Bank, through the FADAMA programme, would not like to work with those states that were not meeting their financial obligations towards the programme.
Alkali said that the major challenge facing the project was the apathy of some states toward the payment of the counterpart funds.
He said that the payment of the counterpart funds was one of the prerequisites for the disbursement of project funds to beneficiary states, adding, however, that some states were still defaulting.
Alkali said that officials of the World Bank and the National FADAMA Office were now trying to pay advocacy visits to the affected states and influence their governments to defray the backlog of counterpart funds.
Alkali, however, rated the performance of the FADAMA III (AFII) programme across the six participating states as high, saying that the programme had accomplished its set targets, particularly in those states which had fulfilled their contractual obligations.
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