Opposition demands probe over alleged N4bn rail project error in Borno

Opposition parties and residents successful Borno State person called for an autarkic probe into the inclusion of a non-existent ₦4 cardinal railway task successful the state’s 2025 fund implementation report.

The request follows the Borno State Government’s admittance connected Monday that the project, which was listed arsenic 100 per cent completed, was included successful the study owed to an administrative error.

Speaking connected the matter, the Commissioner for Information and Internal Security, Usman Tar, said an interior reappraisal confirmed that nary railway task was awarded, funded, oregon executed by the authorities authorities successful Maiduguri Metropolitan Council and Jere Local Government Area during the 2025 fiscal year.

“The inclusion of the obstruction task introduction successful the 2025 Budget Implementation Report, indicating 100 per cent completion, was an administrative mistake and does not bespeak the existent presumption of the substance arsenic the said task was neither executed nor paid for,” Tar stated.

Reacting connected Tuesday, the Publicity Secretary of the Nigeria Democratic Congress successful Borno State, Aliyu Balarabe, urged the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and the Independent Corrupt ...