The Nasarawa State House of Assembly Ad-hoc committee investigating the alleged N1 billion released in 2018 for the renovation /fencing of Secondary schools projects has asked the former Commissioner for Education and now the Secretary to the Government of Nasarawa State, Alhaji Aliyu Ahmed Tijani to refund over N248.5 million as unaccounted funds to the coffer of the state government.
Hon Daniel Oga Ogazi, (APC- Kokona East), the Chairman of the committee made this known while presenting the committee’s reports during the House proceeding in Lafia today.
Rt. Hon Ibrahim Balarabe Abdullahi, the Speaker of the House after receiving the reports slated tomorrow Tuesday, June 2nd, 2020 for deliberation on the report.
Ogazi said that the former Commissioner displayed blatant inefficiency, incompetency and ineffectiveness in the performance of his official duties.
According to him, based on the committee’s recommendations, the total sum of N873, 233,942.60 was expended based on information from the payment Voucher (PVs) excluding 5% deductions for Monitoring and Evaluation (M $ E) as payments for the completed and uncompleted projects.