Ben Akabueze, director general of the budget office of the
federation, says funds were withheld for duplicated projects discovered by the
Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC).
Bolaji Owasanoye, chairman of the ICPC, had disclosed that
257 projects amounting to N20.138 billion were duplicated in the 2021 budget.
Owosanoye had said the commission tracked 1083 projects
across the country with the exception of Borno and Zamfara states, owing to
security challenges.
Speaking on Sunrise Daily, a Channels Television programme,
on Friday, Akabueze said 54 out of the 295 projects were not duplications but
only had description issues.
He said every project in the budget had a unique identifier,
adding that funds were withheld for 185 projects that were indeed duplicated.
“The ICPC came up with a report, which they sent to us about
duplicated projects that they found in the budget. We did our own review, we
found that 54 of those projects were not actually duplications but they were
issues with project descriptions” he said.
“This description made them look the same but they are not
the same. Every project in the budget has a unique identifier.
“And which were found
to indeed be duplicated, released funding was withheld from such a project.
From the list we received from the ICPC, there are only 185 duplicated
projects, 54 were not.”
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