Vatsa faults Bago over N18.2bn IBB hospital project, questions N1.5tn loan

Former Niger State Commissioner for Information, Culture and Tourism, Jonathan Tsadó Vatsa, has criticised Governor Mohammed Umaru Bago's medication implicit the alleged summation successful the outgo of remodelling IBB Specialist Hospital from N11.8 cardinal to N18.2 billion, saying the task remains incomplete.

Vatsa, a erstwhile chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC, who has since near the party, described the infirmary task arsenic 1 of the astir questionable undertakings of the medication and demanded accountability for the expenditure.

Addressing journalists, helium questioned wherefore the project's outgo had reportedly risen by N6.4 cardinal without its completion, calling for scrutiny of the funds committed to the remodelling exercise.

The erstwhile commissioner besides questioned the utilisation of an alleged N1.5 trillion indebtedness obtained by the authorities government, asking what happened to N1 trillion aft the politician reportedly indicated that N500 cardinal was needed for assorted roadworthy projects.

"The question present is, wherever is the N1 trillion naira? What happened to the money?" Vatsa asked.

He alleged that respective roadworthy projects crossed the authorities had been abandoned contempt accrued national allocations and important borrowing by the administration.

Vatsa further warned that the state's increasing indebtedness load could enforce fiscal difficulties connected aboriginal generations, arguing that the authorities had failed to construe the resources astatine its disposal into completed infra...