The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) has uncovered an N2.67bn fund, meant for feeding federal colleges and secondary school students, paid into private accounts.
“We discovered payments to Federal Colleges, secondary schools for school feeding, amounting to N2.67bn during the lockdown when children were not in school and some of these monies we traced ended up in personal accounts,” the Chairman of the Commission, Bolaji Owasanoye, said during the 2nd National Summit on Diminishing Corruption in the Public Sector in Abuja on Monday.
“We have accosted those who are involved and investigations are ongoing towards who they fed when the children were at home and there was a lockdown.”
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7/ Furthermore, we have recovered and mostly returned to beneficiaries assets worth N700m and cash almost N200m.
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8/ We discovered payment of N2.67bn during lockdown when the children were not in school, and some money ended up in personal accounts. We have commenced investigations into these findings.
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