CACOL Asks EFCC, ICPC to Probe LAWMA Fraud Allegations
The Centre for Anti-Corruption and Open Leadership yesterday asked the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission and the Independent Corrupt Practices Commission to probe fraud allegations in the Lagos Waste Management Authority .
LAWMA had come under public scrutiny in the recent time with street sweepers alleging non-payment of four-month salaries and unprecedented rise in the agency’s running cost from N540 million to N1 billion per month. At these instances, CACOL claimed that fraud running into hundreds of millions of Naira had been uncovered in the state waste management agency.
It claimed that the running cost of LAWMA “rose from about N540 million to N1 billion. With the rise, Sanwo-Olu asked the former Managing Director to step aside for an audit while Mr. Ibrahim Odumboni was asked to oversee the process. “The auditors discovered that most of the names submitted by the woman to collect money were non-existent, while a number of the routes were unkempt. Based on the figures she submitted to the government, her company was collecting over N80 million monthly from LAWMA.
It noted that direct interactions with some of the sweepers in the state “supported media reports in the public domain. Also, the Commissioner for the Environment also corroborated media reports when he said there was no reason why the agency should owe the sweepers because their funding comes directly from the Ministry of Finance.
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