N25m On Toilets, N100m On Mini-Stadium... How Anambra River Basin Is Wasting N2bn On Irrelevant Projects |SaharaReporters The water management focused institution will go on to do the following: Construction of VIP Toilets in Ore Umuma-Isiaku... READ MORE:
Floods reeked disaster on no less than 64,000 persons in Anambra State alone, according to the last impact report released by the Nigerian Emergency Management Agency on September 26, 2018.
Construction of VIP Toilets in Ore Umuma-Isiaku and Isiogwugwu Hall Ideato South LGA, Imo State for N25million; construction/renovation of six classroom blocks each in Amaraku Secondary School, Isiala Mbano LGA, Imo State and Umunkwo Girls’ Secondary School, Isiala Mbano LGA, Imo State; construction of Divisional Police Station/accommodation at Camp Nkpologu, Uzo-Uwani Lga, Enugu State for N70million.
Among the poorly described projects cited are 'Erosion Control in Umunne/Oduma/Nenwe and Erosion Control/Pavement in Amichi-Igboukwu road'.Meanwhile, the 2019 appropriation bill presented to the National Assembly by President Muhammadu Buhari in December also has a draft of 21 misaligned projects as well, 50 per cent less than those in the 2018 approved spending plan.
For 2018, the total worth of AIRBDA's misaligned project stood at N1,894,340,037, while for 2019, the value of misaligned projects was N213million.Going by the laws of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Section 4 of the act establishing River Basin Development Authority stipulates their functions within set geographical boundaries to include:
- to construct, operate and maintain infrastructural services such as roads and bridges linking project sites: provided that such infrastructural services are included and form an integral part of the list of approved projects; and
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