"Multi billion naira failed roads, Ogunlewe have case to answer "- Anenih

Chief Tony Anenih ion

According to Tribune the House of  Representatives, on Wednesday, said that there are questions to be answered by former Ministers of Works, Chief Tony Anenih and Senator Adeseye Ogunlewe, in respect of audit queries raised against them by the Auditor General of the Federation on how billions of naira were expended on “questionable road projects”during their tenures.
This is coming just as the House also said that it was currently probing the activities of the Nigerian Civil Aviation Agency (NCAA) and the Federal Airport Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) through status inquiry into their financial activities.

The chairman, House Committee on Public Accounts, Honourable Solomon Olamilekan Adeola, who dropped the hint during an interactive session with newsmen in Abuja on Wednesday noted that, “Senator Ogunlewe and Chief Anenih still have cases to answer, the facts are all on ground. There are facts and figures. No case is closed. We are working round the clock so that all audit queries are treated.”

It will be recalled that the House committee had last year summoned Chief Anenih to defend his actions on a N2.3 billion allegedly spent on failed road contract in Nasarawa State in 2006.

But Chief Anenih, had in a four-page letter to the Speaker, Honourable Aminu Tambuwal, dated November 29 questioned the claim of the committee on the N2.3 billion failed contract.

However, the chairman of the committee said that the committee resolved to probe the two agencies under the purview of the aviation ministry because of their failure to answer queries arising from the Auditor-General’s Report.

According to him, “the new DG of FAAN has been avoiding the committee, we have invited him more than three times but he is always having one excuse or the other.

Then, I continue to wonder why somebody who is supposed to be a technocrat is now defending the purchase of two armoured cars for a minister, saying they are bringing politics into it. Mind you, this is a matter that is already before the public.”

Honourable Adeola further alleged that the committee, in the course of its duties, discovered that some ministers were in the habit of

dipping hands into the funds of agencies under them, saying, “you see ministers trampling on the agencies under them collecting funds that are not budgeted for like what you have just seen in the case of the Aviation Minister that went into NCAA accounts.”