New AMCOW boss resumes, promises new dawn in Africa’s water, sanitation sector
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By Tosin Kolade
Abuja, Oct. 10, 2016 (NAN) The new Executive Secretary for the African Ministers Council on Water (AMCOW), Dr Canisius Kanangire, has affirmed his commitment to stimulate a new era for water and sanitation in the continent.
He declared this in a statement signed by Mr Atayi Babs, AMCOW’s Communications Officer and made available to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja on Monday.
Kanangire restated his commitment to strengthening AMCOW’s capacity to provide the needed political leadership and direction for the sector.
The new executive secretary also promising to reinforce the body’s fiduciary mechanisms to achieve more accountability, transparency and value for money.
He said strengthening AMCOW in its mission of ensuring the effective and efficient management of the continent’s water resources directly translates to the provision of adequate and equitable access to safe water and sanitation for all.
“This carries the possibility of making critical contributions to Africa’s progress towards sustainable growth and development and setting us on the on the path to actualising the Africa Water Vision 2025,” Kanangire said.
The new executive secretary from Rwanda was the immediate past Executive Secretary of Lake Victoria Basin Commission (LVBC) Kisumu, Kenya.
Kanangire brings to AMCOW over two decades of experience in integrated water resources management and trans-boundary natural resource management.
The new executive secretary succeeds Mr Bai Mass Taal, whose tenure ended in August 2016.
AMCOW, established since 2002, seeks to promote cooperation, security, social and economic development and poverty eradication among member states through the effective management of the continent’s water resources.
As the Specialised Technical Committee for Water and Sanitation of the African Union, AMCOW contributes to Africa’s progress towards sustainable growth and development by providing political leadership.
This translates to the provision of adequate and equitable access to safe water and sanitation.(NAN)
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Edited by Bayo Sekoni/Felix Ajide
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