Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission said it has recovered N15 million cash from some government officials in Kwara State.
According to the commission, the funds were recovered from both past and present Kwara State legislative and executive members.
Apart from the recovered cash, the commission said it also recovered furniture and electronic appliances, adding that the affected persons hail from Kwara Central senatorial district of the state.
The Commission said it had tracked 240 projects on road, water and schools out of which about 59 contractors were asked to go back to sites to correct some abnormalities.
ICPC added that it had made recoveries of 2,677 furniture, 57 computer system and 16 generating sets.
The team leader ICPC Kwara Constituency and Executive Projects Tracking, Aminu Bala, who disclosed this on Wednesday, said that the phase two tracking exercise was an initiative of ICPC called ‘constituency and executive tracking exercise’.
“Today is the peak of the exercise; we are going to handover the recovery items to the schools, equally the desks. It’s the responsibility of the contractors to move them to schools; we are going to give the list to the Education Secretary to ensure those contractors deliver those items to various schools.
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“The desks are to be distributed to various schools between Tuesday and Friday while the recovered N15m has been paid into Federal government Treasury Account,” he stated.