THE Senate, yesterday, cautioned President Muhammadu Buhari against abandoning the projects and policies of former Presidents, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, late Alhaji Umaru Yar’Adua and Dr. Goodluck Jonathan.
According to the Senate, the warning became imperative because it was determined to cut down on wasteful spending by government.
Speaking in Abuja yester-day, during an investigative hearing on the abandonment of the N8 billion Code of Conduct Bureau Office headquarters organised by the Senate Committee on the Federal Capital Territory, Chairman of the Committee, Senator Dino Melaye (APC, Kogi West) stressed that the alarming increase in the number of abandoned projects has become of great concern to well meaning Nigerians.
Melaye said: “As soon as these programmes and projects are abandoned, new ones are initiated only to be abandoned by yet another successive government, while the nation’s resources continue to be wasted.
“The Senate was utterly dismayed when it received a motion in respect of the abandonment of N8 billion Code of Conduct Bureau office headquarters projects.”
Chairman of the Code of Conduct Bureau, Mr. Sam Saba, who came under fire over the bureau’s decision to abandon a building project already budgeted for, was charged by members of the committee to ensure its completion by pushing for its inclusion in the 2017 budget.
A member of the committee and Deputy Chief Whip of the Senate, Francis Alimikhena (APC, Edo North) who objected to the procurement of a new office building for CCB, told the Chairman that the abandonment of the initial building project was an indication that it was conceived to fail.
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