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The Ebonyi State Government has dismissed arsenic mendacious and misleading claims alleging that it budgeted ₦16 cardinal for the moving of its Abuja Liaison Office.
In a connection issued by the Special Assistant to the Governor connected New Media, Leo Ekene-Oketa, the authorities described the allegation by Chika Nwoba arsenic “malicious, fictitious and deliberately misleading.”
According to the aide, Ebonyi State owns a spot located successful the Central Business District, Abuja, wherever a 12-storey gathering antecedently stood earlier it was demolished by the authorities authorities successful 2016.
It explained that the ₦16 cardinal proviso successful the 2026 fund is not for the cognition of the Abuja Liaison Office but strictly for the improvement and redevelopment of the state-owned spot for the payment of Ebonyi people.
The adjutant further clarified that the existent recurrent expenditure for the Abuja Liaison Office remains wrong its accepted scope implicit the years, with unit and operational costs estimated astatine astir ₦77 million.
Reaffirming the administration’s position, Oketa stressed that Governor Nwifuru remains committed to transparency, prudent absorption of nationalist funds and sustained infrastructural improvement crossed Ebonyi State.
He urged the nationalist to disregard what helium termed misleading narratives and to ...
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