The minister is to coordinate with the ministries of environment and transportation as well as state governments to develop the plan.
“But it is not the main reason we have floods in this country — 80 per cent of the floods in this country is water that we are blessed with from God from the sky,” he said.
Originally three years imprisonment or N10 million fine, the judge, however, asked the convicts to pay N1 million fine each.
The minister noted that mainstreaming young persons was central to the country’s fight towards ending open defecation by 2025.
The water resources bill had already been rejected twice at the National Assembly in 2018 and 2020, yet Mr Buhari re-presented it.
Labour unions condemned Mr El-Rufai’s action at the time and warned of serious consequences should it be allowed to stand, but the governor called their bluff.
Each participant will receive N20,000 monthly for three months for the duration of the programme.
