House of Representatives ad-hoc committee investigating the utilization of Ecological Funds of the Great Green Wall Project on Wednesday queried claims by the National Agency for Great Green Wall that it spent N81bn to plant 21 million trees in the frontline states in the north.
The states are Kebbi, Sokoto, Zamfara, Katsina, Kano, Jigawa, Bauchi, Gombe, Adamawa, Yobe and Borno.
NAGWW Director-General, Yusuf Maina Bukar, told the committee that the agency also spent N697.71m on renovation of office accommodation and N11.28bn on capital projects.
He said the main funding of the agency was from 15 per cent of the Ecological Funds and the federal allocation as well as other sources for its operations.
The committee also quizzed the Central Bank of Nigeria over seven accounts domiciled in the apex bank.
A six-page document dated 22nd August, 2023 submitted by the CBN showed that N9,465,960,382.57 was domiciled in the agency’s account from 2015 to date.
The Accountant-General of the Federation, Oluwatoyin Madein, represented by Deputy Director, Irene Nwangwu, said the NAGWW had received a total of N19,377,726,506.95 from the Derivation & Ecology Accounts from February 2019 to date.
In addition, the agency also received the N11.023bn as capital expenditure through the oAGF.
