Courtesy Visit by The Executive Secretary Captain Junaid Abdullahi to HIS Excellency The Vice President, Sen. Kashim Shettima CFR.

Courtesy Visit by The Executive Secretary Border Communities Development Agency (BCDA), Captain Junaid Abdullahi To His Excellency, The Vice President of The Federal Republic of Nigeria, Sen. Kashim Shettima CFR and Chairman Governing Board of BCDA at The State House, Abuja. 22/02/24. For more on this, click the link. https://x.com/stanleynkwocha_/status/1760978459818365339?s=20

COURTESY VISIT BY THE EXECUTIVE GOVERNOR OF KATSINA STATE, HIS EXCELLENCY MALLAM DIKKO UMARU RADDA PhD TO BORDER COMMUNITIES DEVELOPMENT AGENCY (BCDA) 13/02/2024.

The Katsina State Government and Border Communities Development Agency (BCDA) are collaborating to raise the living standard of people living along border communities in Katsina state.

The Executive secretary BCDA Captain Junaid Abdullahi stated this when he received the Katsina state Governor, His Excellency Mallam Dikko Umaru Radda PhD on 13th February, 2024 at the Agency’s head office in Abuja.

Welcoming the delegation, the Executive Secretary (BCDA) Captain Junaid Abdullahi congratulated the Governor on his election noting that Katsina State is one of the principal stakeholders of Border Communities Development Agency, as it is a border state with about 3 to 4 international border post. The Executive Secretary stated that BCDA has executed and completed quite a number of projects in the border communities of Katsina state.

The Executive Secretary noted that the good working relationship that exists between the state and the Agency will enhance a more robust collaboration and facilitate addressing issues of insecurity within the region.

Speaking further, Captain Junaid Abdullahi said, raising the standard of living would help address the issues of poverty in those communities and also reduce the prevailing issue of insecurity which is also as a result of poverty challenges experienced in border communities.

Responding, The Executive Governor of Katsina State expressed his gratitude to the Executive Secretary BCDA and his management team for executing over 50 projects ranging from School blocks of Classrooms, Boreholes, Solar Street lights, Health facilities among others from 2015 to 2023 in Katsina state, while also pledging his constant support to the developmental activities of BCDA in Katsina State.

The Governor also assured that the government of Katsina State is willing to collaborate more with the Agency in delivering developmental projects that will boost the economy of the border communities and by extension raise the standard of living of the people living in those border communities as this would seriously reduce the challenges of banditry and insecurity in the state.

BCDA will be handing over 4 newly completed developmental projects in some border communities in Katsina state to the state government. In the Agency’s 2024 budget, a total number of 10 projects will be executed in Katsina state.

 

Bala Ugah

Head, Public Affairs & Protocol Unit.

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WORKING VISIT BY THE EXECUTIVE SECRETARY BORDER COMMUNITIES DEVELOPMENT AGENCY (BCDA) CAPTAIN JUNAID ABDULLAHI AND MANAGEMENT MEMBERS TO BORDER COMMUNITIES IN OGUN STATE.

The Executive Secretary Border Communities Development Agency (BCDA), Captain Junaid Abdullahi and Management Members were on a two day working visit to Border Communities in Ipokia and Imeko-Afon Local Government Areas in Ogun State from Monday 1st February, 2021 to Tuesday 2nd February, 2021.

On arrival at Idiroko in Ipokia Local Government Area, the Executive Secretary and the BCDA Team paid a courtesy visit on the Oniko of Ikolaje, His Royal Majesty Oba John Olakunle Ojo. His Royal Majesty thanked the Executive Secretary and the Agency for responding to their request with the laudable transformer project to the community that has been without electricity for the past eleven (11) years.  The Executive Secretary and his entourage then proceeded to the historic Idiroko Border Post and had a robust interactive meeting with security chiefs manning the border post namely; Nigerian Customs Service (NCS), Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS), National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), Department of State Security (DSS) and the Ports Health Services and also discussed on areas of mutual collaboration.

The official commissioning of the 2.5MVA,33/11 KVA Injection Transformer and Ring Main Unit (RMU) at Ikolaje Idi-Iroko Substation, Ipokia Local Government Area by the Executive Secretary was greeted with fanfare and jubilation from the host community as the project has brought about a change in their socio-economic wellbeing. The next point of call was a visit to the Onipokia of Ipokia, His Royal Majesty Oba Adeniyi Olusola Olaniyan. The Onipokia of Ipokia requested that projects executed by BCDA situated in his domain like the Health Care Centre, Garri Processing Plant become fully operational and functional with the assistance of the Agency.

The Executive Secretary and his team also visited sites for BCDA 2021 Capital Projects in Imeko-Afon Border L.G.A. which include project site for the Construction of Border Market Stalls with Solar Powered Borehole and Overhead Tank in Igbogbo and project site for the Renovation of Classrooms in Muslim High School, Agbongi both in Imeko-Afon LGA. The Executive Secretary and his team had earlier paid a courtesy visit on the Onimeko of Imeko, His Royal Majesty Oba Benjamin Alabi Olanite at his palace. They discussed on possible areas of intervention by the Agency, like; roads, schools and other basic infrastructures as enumerated by key community stakeholders present at the meeting. The Executive Secretary acknowledged that the communities are primary stakeholders of the Agency and all will be done to ameliorate the lives and livelihoods of people living in the border communities.

COURTESY VISIT BY THE EXECUTIVE SECRETARY BCDA, CAPTAIN JUNAID ABDULLAHI AND MANAGEMENT MEMBERS OF THE AGENCY TO THE HONOURABLE MINISTER OF INTERIOR, OGBENI RAUF ARAGBESOLA.

The Executive Secretary BCDA, Captain Junaid Abdullahi, accompanied by Management Members of the Agency paid a courtesy visit to the Honourable Minister of Interior, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola who is also a member of the Governing Board of the Agency. The visiting team were warmly received by the Honourable Minister and Management Members of the Ministry.

The purpose of the courtesy visit was to seek possible areas of collaboration and partnership for the benefit of people living in the Nation’s Border Communities.

The Executive Secretary in his address, thanked the Honourable Minister for his incisive contributions during the Agency’s Governing Board meetings specifically the virtual board meeting held on the 20th, December, 2020 during which Minister raised salient points that are very important to the Agency’s Strategic Action Plan. He went further to solicit the collaboration and cooperation of the Ministry of Interior and other stakeholder Agencies under its supervision towards the successful implementation of BCDA’s 5 Year Strategic Action Plan.

The Honourable Minister in his response observed that, though the Agency is seriously underfunded to carry out its mandate, it remains a strategic Agency of the Federal Government and a purpose vehicle to bringing government’s presence to the people living in the Border Communities. He stated further that he’ll support and push for adequate funding of the Agency at the Executive level. The Minister also advocated for a security component in the BCDA 5 Year Strategic Action Plan that will involve collaboration with relevant Security Agencies whereby sensitization programs/activities would be jointly carried out for the benefit of the people residing in the Border Communities. 

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