REVEALED: How lawmakers awarded constituency projects to relatives — and inflated cost of contracts | TheCable
Since the return to civilian rule in 1999, Nigeria has budgeted trillions of naira for constituency projects sponsored by lawmakers in the two chambers of the national assembly.
The phase three report of the constituency project tracking exercise by the ICPC revealed various incidents of “overpaid contract sums, projects subtly awarded to lawmakers, payment for non-existent projects”, among others.The tracking exercise, which began in September 2021 and is supported by the MacArthur Foundation, covered projects in 17 states.
As in the report, in Katsina central federal constituency, the original design for the construction and equipment of e-library was changed without approval from the government. Although N49.9 million was approved and paid for the project, valuation of what the contractor built put the cost at N17.9 million. ICPC described the completed project as a “cubicle” instead of a large hall.
Lawmakers were also said to have used medical outreach projects such as healthcare intervention, awareness campaign on diseases, and provision of drugs to hospitals to allocate funds for questionable projects. But the report states that less that 50 percent of the budget approved for such projects are actually spent on execution.
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