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NUC: House of Reps discovers three years duplication of annual budget

Damilola Adeyemo

ABUJA – House of Representatives Adhoc committee has investigated capital projects executed and funds repeated every year in the Appropriation Act by Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) since 2015, yesterday uncovered a three-year duplication of annual budget figures by the National Universities Commission (NUC).

In a statement, The Chairman of the committee,Abubakar Makki Yalleman, said the agency duplicated its annual capital budgets from 2017 to 2020.

The Director of Finance and Administration of NUC Sam Onazi, in his presentation, could not offer satisfactory explanation to the lawmakers, as the bulky documents he tendered did not detail the award of contracts from 2017 to date.

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