The New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD) would  facilitate implementation of the food security and agriculture development programme in all sub-regions, the Special Adviser to the President on NEPAD, Ambassador Tunji Olagunju, has said

Speaking during an  interactive session with members of the Senate Committee on Cooperation, Integration in Africa and NEPAD, Olagunju asked for laws to empower it to look into the activities of states and local governments across the country, in terms of provision of good governance, according to Africa Peer Review’s Programmes of Action.

He decried the  non-implementation of the Africa Peer Review Mechanism’s Programmes of Action, believing that it would be difficult to impose sanctions on defaulting states without breaching the law unless there was legislation to that effect.

According to him,  “there must be an enabling law if we want to do the work of policing these programmes. We need a law that will allow us to monitor and reinforce the values of good governance at state and local government levels, without breaching the constitution.”

He, however,  blamed NEPAD’s poor performance in the recent times on lack of funding, saying that  the agency’s allocation had been going down annually in spite of the advocacy nature of its programmes.

The chairman of the committee, Senator Simeon Ajibola, who admitted that value creation was part of the problems of the country, said the issue would be looked into, with a view to domesticating such values through the introduction of enabling legislation.

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