ICPC begins tracking of N16.3bn constituency projects in Kogi

The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) has commenced the tracking of 72 constituency projects valued astatine N16.3 cardinal crossed the 3 senatorial districts of Kogi State.

The Assistant Commissioner of the Commission, Wale David, disclosed this connected Saturday successful Lokoja, the Kogi State capital.

David said the workout is aimed astatine ensuring that the projects were executed successful accordance with owed process and are delivering tangible benefits to the people.

According to him, the committee volition besides analyse abandoned projects and those allegedly executed beneath standard.

He stated that contractors liable for substandard enactment would beryllium compelled to instrumentality to tract and rectify identified defects, portion involution programmes would beryllium assessed to verify beneficiaries and measure the prime of implementation.

The ICPC authoritative revealed that the monitoring workout began successful Lokoja with the inspection of the N6.2 cardinal Federal Secretariat Complex task and the N6.4 cardinal Inland River Port project.

He added that the tracking workout would beryllium extended to each 21 section authorities areas of Kogi State.

The committee said the inaugural forms portion of efforts to fortify transparency and accountability successful nationalist procurement and to guarantee that residents of Kogi State bene...