Around this time last year, a damning report detailing how Tony Anenih, a former transportation minister and leader of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), and some of his successors in the ministry, allegedly misapplied billions of naira meant for the rehabilitation and construction of federal roads, was listed for debate - for the third time in a row - by the Senate.
It was not taken; but postponed by one month because the budget was considered the pressing issue at that moment. December came and went and it kept appearing on the order paper as a matter to be taken "next month." The report which took the ad hoc committee 18 months to produce kept appearing that way till February this year when it was again listed to be debated and adopted in March.
Later, at the same time that the late president, Umaru Musa Yar'Adua, became invisible, the report also disappeared completely from the calendar of the Senate and has not been re-introduced till date.
The transport probe report is filled with revelations of alleged serial malpractices, and shows how, in 10 years (1999 to 2009), through multiple contract fraud, connivance between contractors and government officials, some N633 billion was spent on only 4,752 kilometres of road; shortchanging the government to the tune of N47 million per kilometre of road.
Source:http://234next.com
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