The Impartial Corrupt Practices and Different Associated Offences Fee on Tuesday introduced that it has begun monitoring constituency tasks value N610bn throughout 22 states.
The anti-graft defined that the initiative goals to make sure that the tasks should not deserted and that the allotted funds are correctly utilised.
In a press release issued on Tuesday, the ICPC spokesperson, Demola Bakare, revealed {that a} whole of 1,500 tasks throughout the six geopolitical zones will probably be monitored.
He listed the states the place the tasks will probably be tracked as Kwara, Niger, Kogi, the Federal Capital Territory, Kebbi, Kano, Kaduna, Jigawa, Bauchi, Gombe, Borno, Lagos, Ondo, Osun, Oyo, Akwa Ibom, Rivers, Cross River, Delta, Imo, Abia, and Enugu.
He mentioned, “The ICPC has kicked off Part 7 of the Constituency and Government Mission Monitoring Train.
“The monitoring of the constituency and government tasks is an initiative of the fee that started in 2019, specializing in how effectively cash allotted to vital sectors of schooling, well being, agriculture, water sources and energy, amongst others, by the federal government is utilised.
“The seventh part, involving 1,500 tasks with a complete undertaking worth of N610bn, commenced on Monday, November 18th, 2024, in 22 states throughout the six geopolitical zones. The states are Kwara, Niger, Kogi, FCT, Kebbi, Kano, Kaduna, Jigawa, Bauchi, Gombe, Borno, Lagos, Ondo, Osun, Oyo, Akwa Ibom, Rivers, Cross River, Delta, Imo, Abia and Enugu State.
“The Part 7 monitoring train will minimize throughout companies of presidency, together with intervention companies such because the North-East Growth Fee; the Niger Delta Growth Fee; the Nationwide Agricultural Land Growth Authority, Common Primary Schooling Fee, Rural Electrification Company, Nationwide Major Well being Care Growth Authority, Tertiary Schooling Belief Fund and Ecological Fund Workplace.
“The target of the train is to deepen adherence to due course of within the execution of presidency tasks, enhance worth for cash, and entrench the tradition of compliance with the scope and specification as contained within the contract paperwork.”
Bakare mentioned over the last train, the fee tracked a complete of 1,900 tasks value N500bn in 24 states.
He mentioned, “The ICPC tracked a complete of 1,900 tasks valued at N500bn in Part 6 of the train throughout 24 states of the nation’s six geopolitical zones.
“The tasks have been tracked throughout the focal sectors of Schooling, Water Sources, Agriculture, Energy, Well being, Power, and Roads.
“These tasks within the sixth part have been awarded to a complete of 1,355 contractors in 176 MDAs.”