Senate Tackles Lai Mohammed Over His Ministry’s N250m Project

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The Nigerian Senate on Tuesday grilled the Minister of Information, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, over a controversial project his Ministry embarked on which was fully funded by the Ministry of Finance for execution within the 2020 fiscal year. Lai Mohammed

The project which was titled ERPG 10145116, and was listed as ‘completion of NTA Gashua sub-station ongoing’. The projects allocation of N250m was fully disbursed to the Ministry. The Minister who led other top officials of his Ministry to the Senate on Tuesday to defend their 2021 budget estimates.

The Chairman of the Senate Committee on Information, Abdullahi Sankara, maintained that the Minister has a lot of explanations to give over its #N250m Project.

He said that it was 100 per cent release of funds without any work to commensurate the full release of funds yet to be seen. The controversy over the controversial N250m fund sparked when the Minister explained that the project was sponsored by a lawmaker as a constituency project and yet inserted the same into the Ministry of Informations 2020 budget.

Senators present at the panel took exception to Alhaji Lai Mohammed’s explanation.

The lawmakers took turns to query the Minister over the project, insisting that it was not a constituency project.

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