The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Senator, Ireti Kingibe, has decried the lack of evidence on projects reported to have been completed in the capital city of Nigeria.
Senator Kingibe said that while the projects were supposed to benefit the FCT residents, as reported, there was no place to see them.
In a statement on Saturday morning, the FCT Senator regretted that residents of the capital city were being deceived.
“At the recent Round Table Meeting of the Senate Committee on Water Resources, I raised the issue of intervention projects supposedly completed within my constituency but kept hidden from my oversight since last year, despite my repeated requests for information,” Mrs. Kingibe said.
The Labour Party lawmaker noted the need to hold leaders accountable concerning the reported completed projects that cannot be verified.
“As the Senator representing the Federal Capital Territory, I firmly believe public officers must be held accountable for their actions. This principle has driven me to demand comprehensive details about the intervention projects reported as completed in the FCT.
“These projects were intended to benefit the people of the FCT; yet, while they appear completed on paper, there is no visible evidence of them. This raises critical questions: Who were the contractors? Who approved and supervised these projects? These are answers I am committed to finding,” she stated.
Mrs. Kingibe called for transparency in government projects. She demanded a serious scrutiny of the Director General of the Niger Basin Development Authority.
“While minor delays or concealed information on one or two projects might be conceivable, it is highly troubling when 14 projects—covering essential areas like road construction, perimeter fencing, health care centers, and fertilizer distribution—are claimed to be completed without transparency. This lack of accountability from the Director General of the Niger Basin Development Authority demands serious scrutiny.
“We must do better. Nigeria deserves a system rooted in transparency and accountability, where leaders are held responsible for their actions and decisions to build a nation for all,” she added.
