Hyacinth Alia, governor of Benue, has handed over seized reduction supplies to the Financial and Monetary Crimes Fee (EFCC) and Impartial Corrupt Practices and Different Associated Offences Fee (ICPC).
Alia requested the anti-graft businesses to research the circumstances that led to the invention of the reduction supplies in a non-public residence in Markurdi, the Benue state capital.
The Benue governor additionally mentioned a three-member committee arrange by the state authorities would collaborate with the businesses for the investigation.
In an announcement on Wednesday, Tersoo Kula, the chief press secretary (CPS) to Alia, mentioned the state authorities found that the reduction supplies have been gotten from the warehouse of the Nationwide Emergency Administration Company (NEMA) in Jos.
Kula mentioned the gadgets have been meant for the internally displaced individuals (IDPs) within the Kwande/Ushongo federal constituency of the state.
The CPS mentioned the reduction supplies have been diverted to a non-public residence in Markurdi “underneath the directive” of Terseer Ugbor, the lawmaker representing Kwande/Ushongo federal constituency.
He mentioned the governor ordered the seizure of the truck conveying the reduction supplies and directed that it ought to be taken to the federal government home.
THE LOBBY
The CPS mentioned the federal lawmaker lobbied for the reduction supplies to be allotted to the state.
The CPS mentioned in a letter written by NEMA and addressed to Ugbor, the company mentioned the Benue authorities would bear the price of lifting the supplies from its workplace to the purpose of distribution.
Kula puzzled why reduction supplies meant for folks in Kwande and Ushongo have been being offloaded at a non-public residence in Makurdi.
He famous that the gadgets have been meant for the victims of communal clashes and farmers/herders crises in Kwande/Ushongo federal constituency in Benue state.
Based on the letter written by NEMA, the reduction supplies embody 578 baggage of 25 kg parboiled rice, 578 baggage of 25 kg garri, 58 cartons of vegetable oil (5 ltrs x 4), 58 cartons of seasoning cubes, 58 cartons of tomato paste (sachet), 578 items of froth mattresses, 578 items of mosquito nets, and 578 items of wax prints (5 yards).
