The Regional Coordinator, Department For International Development (DFID), Shina Fagbenro-Byron, on Thursday commended the performance rate of the Lagos Economic Summit (EHINGBETI), which had implemented most of the resolutions passed since its inception.

Fagbenro-Byron, who was a guest on Sunrise Daily, said, “This is the 7th summit and it has a history of passing resolutions and at the beginning of every new summit, there is a recap of the resolutions passed in the previous summit.

“Since the inception of the summit, I think there have been about 158 resolutions and there are only about six or seven outstanding since the first economic summit.”

He further stated that the DFID “got interested in partnering with Lagos State because we’ve seen that the whole idea is to lay targets, drive those targets, and evaluate from time to time, to what level those targets have been achieved.”

He also expressed satisfaction with the level of achievement made by the Summit Group in implementing most of the resolutions passed since the inception of the summit, adding that “as a matter of fact, some of the outstanding resolutions are resolutions that could not have been driven on their own by Lagos State alone.

According to him, some of those resolutions have to do with roles that the Federal Government would play (and some other externals) and “some of these things have longer gestation period before you actually fully implemented.”

He, however, raised concerns that some of the issues raised at the Summit would “continue to recur until longer term structural changes have been made in the entire system both on a national level and also institutionally.”

He stated that “the good note is that there is an upward trajectory of performance and delivery” but that “power is a phony issue, not only for Lagos State, but for the entire nation.”