The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) said it would probe 180 key constituency projects executed by immediate past senators and members of the House of Representatives.
The essence is to make recoveries on projects/contracts confirmed to have been inflated or in which contractors underperformed or did not perform at all.
About N900 billion was released for the project between 2015- 2019 under the leadership of Senator Bukola Saraki and Hon Yakubu Dogara as Senate President and Speaker House of Reps
The Nation in a report said about 2, 516 projects were tracked between 2015 and 2017. Of the lot, 918 were not done, 395 ongoing and 214 cannot be located.
According to a document released by the spokesperson for the commission, Mrs. Rasheedat A. Okoduwa, the first phase will be conducted in 12 states.
The states are: Kogi and Benue (North-Central); Adamawa and Bauchi (North-East); Sokoto and Kano (North-West); Imo and Enugu (South-East); Lagos and Osun (South-West); and Akwa Ibom and Edo (South-South).
Okoduwa said members of the Steering Committee of the investigation/ verification team were drawn from the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC), the Nigerian Institute of Quantity Surveyors (NIQS), the Budget Office of the Federation, the Office of the Accountant-General of the Federation, “Premium Times”, the International Centre for Investigative Reporting (ICIR), the Public and Private Development Centre, the Bureau of Public Procurement (BPP), the Community for Peace & Corrupt-free Society and BudgIT.
The document said: “The first phase of the exercise is to commence in 12 states across the six geo-political zones of the country from Tuesday. At least five projects have been identified for tracking in each state.
credit. The Nation
https://thenationonlineng.ne
