The Public Accounts Committee, PAC of the House of Representatives would next week start an investigative hearing into several abandoned road projects across the country put at over N200 billion allegedly not executed by the Federal Ministry of Works.
Solomon Olamilekan Adeola Chairman of House Committee on Public Accounts, PAC, disclosed this on Tuesday when officials of the Ministry, led by its Permanent Secretary, Dr.A K Mohammed, appeared before the committee over 28 queries raised against it by the office of the Auditor -General of the Federation, AuGF, for the financial year ended December 31, 2010.
The committee also revealed that it had uncovered another N17billion reportedly paid out to contractors as mobilisation fees but later abandoned sites after collecting money, while another contractor, JMK Nigeria Limited, was allegedly accused of receiving about N2.2billion from the Ministry as mobilization fees only for it to sub-let same contract.
Members of the committee immediately directed their secretariat to write to the Corporate Affairs Commission,CAC, to furnish it with necessary information about those behind the company, JMK Nig. Ltd, with a view to getting at the root of what transpired.
Adeola, however, made it clear that the committee was not out to witch- hunt any contractor or officials of the Ministry and district engineers of the Ministry of collaborating with contractors.
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