The question Nigerians need to ask is, for how long would the innocent suffer the sins of the guilt in Nigeria?
At a time Nigerians are groaning of under the excruciating pains over the wicked increase in petrol pump price and electricity tariff.
It was at this time that the Independent Corrupt Practices Commission (ICPC) traced the sum of N2.7 billion meant for School Feeding allocation was traced to a private account.
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The money according to ICPC was part of the monthly allocation meant for the Federal Colleges in Nigeria.
The Chairman of the ICPC, Prof. Bolaji Olasanoye made a clarification on the official Twitter Page (@ICPC_PE) of the anti-corruption agency monitored by www.sojworldnews.com on Tuesday.
Full Statement:
The attention of ICPC has been drawn to some reports making the rounds on a segment of the speech delivered by the ICPC Chairman, Professor Bolaji Owasanoye yesterday, Monday, 28th September 2020 at its 2nd National Submit on Diminishing Corruption in the Public Sector. The said reports erroneously implied that the Minister of Humanitarian Affairs diverted monies meant for Home-Grown School Feeding Programme.
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In the speech, Prof. Owasanoye stated inter alia, ‘’… we discovered payments to some federal colleges (secondary schools) for school feeding in the sum of N2.67b during the lockdown when the children were not in school, and some of the money ended up in personal accounts.
We have commenced investigations into these findings’’.
The Commission wishes to clarify that the “school feeding” referred to by the Chairman of ICPC was the feeding of boarding students in Federal Government Colleges, who were all at home during the COVID-19 lockdown.
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