Umahi seeks anti-corruption probe of federal road projects

Minister of Works, David Umahi, has ordered a broad anti-corruption reappraisal of national roadworthy projects, reinforcing transparency and accountability successful infrastructure delivery.

Umahi disclosed this connected Wednesday successful Abuja.

He said the ministry invited Independent Corrupt Practices Commission, ICPC, and Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, to independently analyse roadworthy projects nationwide.

“We wrote to ICPC to analyse each our projects, not connected paper, but physically verify what the President is delivering.

“We besides wrote to EFCC. ICPC has concluded. We gave them abstraction to cheque procurement processes. They person started work. Nobody is interfering.

“I americium told EFCC volition statesman aft Sallah. We are not hiding thing due to the fact that we consciousness for the people.

“When a roadworthy is chopped into two, it is similar radical being imprisoned due to the fact that question becomes impossible. This is what the President is addressing,” Umahi said.

He said the ministry’s costing strategy allowed elaborate breakdowns of materials and operation processes for each project.

“If you inquire astir immoderate task cost, we tin disaggregate it—cement, sand, chippings, equipment—everything is accounted for,” helium said.

Umahi stressed that shifting from asphalt to factual roads, though initially resisted, serves the nationalist interest.

“We fought that conflict due to the fact that factual roads past longer an...