Senate to probe 10,000 abandoned projects – Deputy Minority Leader
The Deputy Minority Leader of Nigeria’s Senate, Senator Kamorudeen Lere Oyewumi has revealed that the Senate has so far identified over 10,000 government projects abandoned at various stages across the country.
Oyewumi said that the Upper Legislative Chamber has given
approval for a thorough probe of the abandoned projects with a view to
resuscitating them where necessary for the betterment of the nation.
The Senator, who is representing Osun West, while speaking
with newsmen, explained that the probe was aimed at identifying viabilities of
the projects, reasons for their abandonment and how much was committed to them.
He said that experts on various fields have been assembled
to determine the usefulness and how much it would cost the present
administration to revive the projects so as to prevent the purposes of
conceiving them from being defeated.
The former Commissioner, National Population Commission,
NPC, further hinted that the contractors, who abandoned the projects, would be
identified and encouraged to go back to sites.
He added that where anyone is found to have gone against the
law, such a person would be handed over to anti-corruption agencies for
necessary action.
The Senator, who lamented that cases of project abandonment
have become worrisome and unbearable, stated that drastic steps would be taken
by the present administration to minimize the ugly national embarrassment.
“Having completed the ‘committee assignment’ process and
senators assigned to committees, they have gotten off to a good start by
focusing on cases of abandoned projects.
“Members of the 10th Senate have been assigned to various
committees. The senate is in recess and we would be returning on September 25th
to start legislative activities with a fresh vigour. I want to tell you
something. We have nicknamed the 10th senate as a corrective senate.
“Before we came up with this, it was as a result of so many
observations and brainstorming. Most of the people that are in the 10th Senate
have gotten elected for the 3rd term, 4th term. They were part of past
administrations. So, we have seen things that are wrong and if we see that
something is wrong, we have to change the way we do it.
“If not, we will keep on getting the same bad result. If we
ourselves have christened the 10th senate as a corrective senate, it has to be
made known that what to expect from us will be different from what you have
been seeing before.
“Let me just give you one hint, we discovered that across
the country, there are more than 10,000 abandoned projects.
“These are projects that have gone through all the required
processes and it is assumed in the reckoning of the government that these have
been delivered to the people of the communities in question.
“But, alas, when you get there, nothing has been done”, the
Senator said and appealed for maximum cooperation of Nigerians to enable the
Senate achieve the set goals.
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