The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences,( ICPC), says it discovers payments to Federal Colleges, Secondary schools for school feeding amounting to N2. 67 billion during the lockdown when children were not in school.
The Chairman of the Commission Prof,Bolaji Owasanoye, while presenting a score sheet of corrupt practices on Monday, at the 2nd National Summit on Diminishing Corruption in Abuja, , observed that transfers to sub-TSA were to prevent disbursement from being monitored but announced that the commission was able to trace some of the money to personal accounts and those involved have been arrested while Investigationis are ongoing “as to who they fed when the children were at home and there was a lockdown.”
He disclosed that the sum of N2 5 billion was illegally appropriated by a deceased senior staff of the Ministry of Agriculture,other assets recovered were 25 plots of land,12 building premises and 18 buildings.
He said the open Treasury portal review was exercised from January to August on all MDAs adding that N4.2 billion paid to private accounts could not be explained.
