Ministry Of Agriculture awarded N18 Billion to Clear Bushes
The House of Representatives’ Committee on Public Accounts has set out to investigate the Federal Ministry of Agriculture over its alleged award of contracts worth N18.9bn to several companies to clear bushes during the COVID-19 lockdown.
Disclosing the development, Tuesday in Abuja, Chairman of the committee, Oluwole Oke stated that the House was interested in finding out the location and significance of such projects.
He further stated that the committee had invited the ministry and the companies involved and that the invited firms were, however, conspicuously absent at the hearing without any reason for their non-appearance.
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