Abandoned Project: Senate Seeks Probe Of N1.5bn CCB Contractor - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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October 23, 2019
National Assembly Joint Committee on Ethics,Privileges and Public Petition yesterday asked anti-corruption agencies toinvestigate a contractor for abandoning a project after collecting 1.5 billion nairamobilisation fee.
The project was reportedly abandoned in 2015 aftermobilisation fee had been paid to the contractor.
The joint committee said the contractor abandonedthe construction of the headquarters of the Code of Conduct Bureau CCB inAbuja.
According the committee, the project is still atfoundation stage, more than four years after it was started.
The Chairman of Senate Committee on Ethics,Privileges and Public Petitions, Ayo Akinyelure, who presided over the jointsession, spoke when the CCB, Code of Conduct Tribunal CCT and the Public ComplaintsCommission PCC appeared to defend their 2020 budgets.
The senator wondered why the CCB had not taken action against the contractor, despite being one of the statutory agencies recognized by the constitution to fight graft.