Exclusively obtained documents by our correspondent showed that the projects were broken down numerically and in terms of percentiles by states and sectors.
There are indications that the Independent Corrupt Practises and other Related Offences Commission has discovered unfinished constituency projects for National Assembly members worth more than N45 billion. Exclusively obtained documents by our correspondent showed that the projects were broken down numerically and in terms of percentiles by states and sectors.
This is a component of the ICPC’s Constituency and Executive Projects Tracking Initiative, which is now in its fifth stage after the fourth stage was finished in 2022. It was discovered that the tracking had aided the anti-graft agency in tracking about 4,000 projects with an estimated N200 billion worth of value. It was learned that the Federation’s Budget Office, Office of the Accountant General, Office of the Auditor General, Bureau of Public Procurement, Nigerian Institute of Quantity Surveyors, media professionals, and civil society organisations that make up the steering committee are all involved in the current phase five. The 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory are home to 205 healthcare projects, 76 water supply projects, 67 environment and natural resource projects, 66 educational projects, and 40 power projects.
According to the documents, the FCT is leading with 13.11%, followed by Lagos State with 9.48%, Kano and Borno states with 8.92% each, Plateau State with 5.58%, Nasarawa State with 5.39%, Enugu State with 5.24%, and Ebonyi State with 4.83%. Ogun, Kaduna, and Yobe states each have 4.28%.
Similar percentages are shared by Ekiti and Taraba states (3.53% each), Adamawa, Kebbi, and Edo states (3.35% each), Delta (2.97%), Akwa-Ibom (2.6%), Benue (2.94%), and Rivers State (1.12%). The fifth phase began in November 2022 in 20 states, including Kaduna, Jigawa, Sokoto, Katsina, Kwara, Niger, Kogi, Cross River, Delta, Rivers, Ogun, Ondo, Osun, Oyo, Anambra, Enugu, Abia, Borno, Bauchi, and Gombe states. This phase involved 712 government-funded projects.
According to reports, the investigation into questionable procurement practises used to award contracts for the chosen projects across the nation is the main goal of the exercise, which got underway in 2019. In a statement released in November 2022, the ICPC stated that its goals were to ensure that every government-funded project was completed exactly as planned and to recover any costs that were either overcharged by contractors or poorly carried out [Punch]