FG projects paid for, not executed — ACE

By Dirisu Yakubu

ABUJA—A non- governmental organization, Alliance for Credible Elections, ACE, has tracked 182 federal capital projects captured in the 2015 federal budget, in Benue, Imo, Ekiti, Jigawa, Cross River, and Gombe states, with some of the projects poorly executed, abandoned or not executed at all.

ACE Acting General Secretary Ms. Mma Odi, who disclosed this in Abuja while presenting a-152 page report on budget tracking of the 2015 Appropriation Act, said the motive was to improve citizens’ participation in the implementation of capital projects by federal ministries, departments and agencies, MDAs.

While promising to make the report available to the leadership of the National Assembly in due course, Odi said: “In the course of our intervention in promoting citizens’ participation in the fight against corruption and good governance in Nigeria through mobilization and building capacity of citizens and groups, as well as tracking capital projects in the six states, we mobilized 899 citizens, built the capacity of 1,232 stakeholders and identified and tracked 182 capital projects in the these states.

“We discovered that some capital projects have been completed, some of the completed ones are not being used by the communities, some are on-going, some abandoned and some not executed at all.”

‘’We also discovered that some of the citizens we are encouraging to take ownership of the governance process and fight against corruption to ensure that Nigerians enjoy the proceeds of good governance and dividends of democracy, are not interested.

‘’Four traditional rulers in Imo and one in Ekiti States refused to allow our project teams in their states to access their communities.”

A breakdown of some of the projects yet to be properly identified include; “Sensitization of Human rights abuses for 10,000 persons in conflict areas of Gboko/Tarka Local Government Areas (LGAs) with a sum of N85, 000,000; Skills acquisition training & empowerment, at   Oju/Obi Federal Constituency at N12, 250,000 and HIV/AIDS awareness campaign/free medicine outreach at Apa and Agatu LGAs, amounting to N50, 000, 000,” among others.

The post FG projects paid for, not executed — ACE appeared first on Vanguard News.