2019 Budget: How we prevented MDAs from padding N42 billion — ICPC
“Do you know that ICPC prevented N41.98 billion from taking flight through corruption as padded personnel cost of some MDAs in 2019?” the post read.
PREMIUM TIMES had reported in February how the ICPC ‘prevented’ over 200 Ministries, Departments and Agencies from squandering N41.98 billion unspent funds last year.Olusegun Adigun, the ICPC head of planning, research and review department, said, the Commission was able to recover such amounts through its System Study and Review process.
The Commission said about N41.9 billion was added to the budget as personnel cost of some government ministries, departments and agencies . “When the current board came on board, the board directed that the Commission should carry out a personnel cost and capital development cost of MDA’s and we were able to cover about 201 MDAs,” he said.“And in the course of the exercise, we were able to restrain the sum of N41.98 billion in 2019 which would have gone to the covers of unscrupulous government officials. That was what we were able to achieve under the SSR process.
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