The Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission(ICPC) has discovered some N2.67 billion fund meant for school feeding in private accounts.

This revealtion was made on Monday by the anti-graft agency at the Presidential Villa in Abuja during its second National Summit on Corruption.

According to reports, Chairman of the Commission, Prof. Bolaji Owasanoye, said the money was meant to feed children in federal colleges in Nigeria during the COVID-19 lockdown.

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Owasanoye said under Open Treasury Portal review carried out between January to August 15, 2020, out of 268 ministries, departments and agendas, 72 of them had cumulative infractions of N90m.

He added that while 33 MDAs tendered explanations that N4.1bn was transferred to sub-TSA, N4.2bn paid to individuals had no satisfactory explanations.

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The chairman of ICPC said it was discovered that over N2.5bn appropriated by a deceased senior civil servant in the Ministry of Agriculture for himself and accomplices.

Some 18 buildings, 12 business premises and 25 plots of land were also recovered in the same ministry while in the education sector, 78 MDAs were reviewed and common cases of misuse of funds were uncovered.

“We observed transfers to sub-TSA were to prevent disbursement from being monitored. Nevertheless, we discovered payments to some federal colleges for school feeding in the sum of N2.67bn during lockdown when the children are not in school, and some of the money ended up in personal accounts. We have commenced investigations into these findings,” he said.

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The Federal Government of Nigeria has disclosed that they have spent 31 billion Naira to curb the spread of COVID-19 in the country in the past four months.

According to Ahmed Idris, the Accountant-General of the Institution, the amount spent by far represents 84% of the N36.3 billion public funds and donations received between April 1, 2020 and July 31, 2020.

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The FG released a statement in response to the Freedom of Information request dated August 10, 2020, and sent to him by Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) and Connected Development (CODE), it was gathered that there is now a balance of N5.9 billion from the donation.

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Kolawole Oluwadare, Deputy Director of SERAP and Hamzat Lawal, Chief Executive of CODE , in a letter dated September 4, 2020 addressed to the Account General, lamented that his office did not provide a breakdown on how the money was spent.

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Famous Nigerian clergyman, Prophet Samuel Abiara, has sent a stern warning to politicians and government workers in the country against stealing COVID-19 funds.

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The clergyman of the Christ Apostolic Church said the families of such thieves will be followed by generational curses.

He made this public in a statement to appreciate the government for reopening worship centers, released on Monday, August 10.

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Parts of his statement reads, “For those who are in charge of the donation of money, food items, etc, God said you must not steal anything from the money, food and all items donated for COVID-19 for yourself. If you do that, curses of the pandemic will be in the family of those who do this,”

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Dancehall artist Shatta Wale has pleaded to Ghanaians to aid in the fight against Coronavirus by contributing any amount into the COVID-19 Fund.

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Government of Ghana established the COVID-19 Fund to accept quotas from the general public to aid in the fight against the deadly virus.

As at Yesterday, the President of Ghana, Nana Akufo-Addo disclosed that the Fund has accrued over 8 Million Ghana Cedis and is expecting more soon.

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Shatta Wale through his PRO made the appeal to celebrities and well meaning citizens of the country to pull funds together no matter how small to help fight a good course.

“From where i’m coming from, I will appeal to celebrities that, no matter how small your donations maybe, even if it will be enough for two people in your small community.

There is no need to wait to get things like 5,000 pieces of sanitizers before (you give). Do it in a very small way you can afford to help. There is no need to get it big. “

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