Lawmakers were visibly angered by a document submitted to the committee which showed that the NICTO office received a credit of $400 million from the World Bank, $321 million from Abacha Restitution and another $400 million said to be balance.
The House of Representatives has expressed reservation over the whopping sum of N186 billion reportedly spent by the Federal Government so far on School feeding programme and decided to carry our a comprehensive investigation of the funds for accountability.
Mr Iowa Apera told the House Committee on Public Accounts that N64bn out of N186 billion said to have been spent was spent on feeding the school pupils alone. Consequently, the Committee currently investigating the management and utilisation of the Presidential Task Force PTF on COVID-19 however demanded a complete project audit of the programme immediately
The National Coordinator told the lawmakers that the feeding programme had been on-going since 2016 when the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs initiated it and had so far gulped N186 billion in totality.
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