FG Says Business No Longer As Usual Says, Only Verified Constituency Projects’ll Attract Payments

The Federal Government has insisted that it would no longer be business as usual as only verified constituency projects would attract payments from 2020.

It could be recalled that N275.678 million had been provided for the Federal Ministry of Special Duties to verify all zonal intervention and constituency projects nation-wide for payment authorisation.

In addition, N240.671 million was budgeted for the purchase of project motor vehicles for Monitoring and Evaluation, M&E, activities.

President Muhammadu Buhari had disclosed that the nation lost about N1 trillion to constituency projects in 10 years without result.

N100 billion has been set aside for the controversial constituency projects in 2020 budget of the Federal Government.

Legislators had rejected the claim that they fraudulently collect funds meant for constituency projects from the Ministries, Departments and Agencies, MDAs, and pocketed them, rather than implement such projects.

Their claims were that they only identified projects to be implemented in their constituencies and that the MDAs were the ones with the mandate to implement them.

However, it is common knowledge that the MDAs accused the legislators of being the ones that usually introduce contractors who acted as fronts to collect budgetary allocations for such projects without implementing them.

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The Buhari administration, which also decided to financially empower the 774 local government areas in the country, has also provided N95.775 million for inspection of LGAs’ projects as well as the M&E of federal approved programmes at the third tier of government.