The Federal Government yesterday refuted media reports that it had dumped the Infrastructure Master Plan put together by the administration of the former president, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan.

In a statement by the Budget and National Planning Minister, Udo Udoma, through his spokesman, Akpadem James, the government said it was “faithfully pursuing the noble intensions of the plan, which is to raise infrastructure stock in line with the country’s growth aspirations.”

According to Udoma, the reports that the plan might have been abandoned were “probably fueled by poor appreciation of the essence of the NIIMP and lack of knowledge about recent developments regarding the defining document, which had to undergo a review to reflect current economic realities.”

The statement reads further: “For effective implementation of the NIIMP, the current administration embarked on a number of related key activities including developing a framework for identifying priority projects with infrastructure-heavy MDAs to form part of the 2017 budget, as well as signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Infrastructure Bank which will act as the Budget and Planning Ministry’s advisor on NIIMP implementation.

“Also, a two-day pre-summit workshop was hosted by the ministry with critical stakeholders to prepare a roadmap for the implementation of Public, Private Partnership (PPP) projects, while also engaging with private sector industry players, especially on PPPs.