People Must Remain At Centre Of Nigeria’s PPP Projects, Says Ewalefoh, ICRC DG.
Ewalefoh said this in a post on his X handle, where he shared lessons from monitoring more than 100 concession agreements and over two decades of involvement in the PPP sector.
He said the true measure of a PPP was not the strength of the agreement reached during negotiations but the quality of life it created for the people it was designed to serve.
“After more than two decades in the Public-Private Partnership space and being involved in over 100 concession agreements, one lesson has become increasingly clear to me: The true measure of a PPP is not the strength of the agreement on the negotiation table.
It is the quality of life it creates for the people it was designed to serve,” he said. The ICRC boss maintained that the interests of citizens must remain central to the planning and implementation of sustainable infrastructure projects, noting that governments and investors might change over time, but the people who depend on the infrastructure would remain. “I truly believe that having a heart for the people must be at the centre of every sustainable PPP. In every PPP, policies are developed by administrations, governments eventually change, investors gain their profits and move on, officials who sat across do not always remain, but the PEOPLE for whom the infrastructure is built for remain!” he stated.
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