Senate grills Lai Mohammed over N250m project

The Senate on Tuesday grilled the Minister of information, Lai Mohammed, over a controversial project fully funded by the Ministry of Finance for execution by his Ministry in the 2020 fiscal year.

The project, which was tagged ERPG 10145116, and listed as ‘completion of NTA Gashua sub-station ongoing’, had its allocation of N250m fully released to the Ministry of Information.

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The Minister led other top officials of his Ministry to the Senate on Tuesday to defend 2021 budget estimates for the ministry.

Abdullahi Sankara, the Chairman, Senate Committee on information, insisted that Lai Mohammed has a lot of explaining to do concerning the project. This was because the payment of N250m was 100 per cent release of funds without any work commensurate to the full releases done on sight.

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The controversy over the project started when Lai Mohammed explained that the project was sponsored by a lawmaker as a constituency project and inserted the same into his Ministry’s 2020 budget.

Senators present at the panel subsequently took strong exception to Mohammed’s explanation. The lawmakers took turns to query the Minister over the project, insisting that it was not a constituency project.

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