The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission, ICPC, says it has found about N2.67 billion meant for school feeding programme in personal bank accounts.
The Chairman of ICPC, Prof. Bolaji Owasanoye, revealed this on Monday, September 28, while delivering a keynote address at the second National Summit on Diminishing Corruption held at the Council Chambers of the Presidential Villa, Abuja with the theme: “Together Against Corruption and the launch of the National Ethics and Integrity Policy.”
The ICPC chairman also revealed that it recently uncovered over N2.5 billion diverted by a deceased senior civil servant in the Ministry of Agriculture and his cronies. He stated other assets recovered in the Agric ministry to include 18 buildings, 12 business premises and 25 plots of land
According to Owasanoye, under the Open Treasury Portal review carried out between January to August 15, 2020, out of 268 Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs), 72 of them had cumulative infractions of N90 million. He said while 33 MDAs tendered explanations that N4.1 billion was transferred to sub-TSA, N4.2 billion paid to individuals had no satisfactory explanations.
“We observed that transfers to sub-TSA was to prevent disbursement from being monitored. Nevertheless, we discovered payments to some federal colleges for school feeding in the sum of N2.67 billion during lockdown when the children are not in school, and some of the money ended up in personal accounts. We have commenced investigations into these finding.”Owasanoye said
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