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Nigeria: Niger Govt to Institute Judicial Commission of Enquiry On Debt Recovery
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Leadership (Abuja)
23 November 2007
Posted to the web 23 November 2007
Abdulazeez Sani
Niger
Niger State government has concluded arrangements to institute a judicial Commission of Enquiry on Debt Recovery. The state attorney-general and commissioner for justice, Barrister Adamu Usman, disclosed this in Minna on Thursday while addressing newsmen on the outcome of the state executive council meeting.
Usman explained that the commission will determine the veracity or otherwise of the claims by some persons who alleged that they are being owed by the state government for projects executed before the inception of the present administration.
He stated that the commission will equally expose some individuals and companies who collected money for work not done.
According to him, the commission will enable those concerned the opportunity to be heard, as some of them who were invited earlier by the Debt Verification Committee to state their position declined to honour the invitation.
The commissioner disclosed that the committee discovered that between January 2006 and may 2007, the past administration purchased 237 vehicles and 1,000 motor-cycles at the total cost of N1.7 billion.
Out of this amount, about N1.4 billion was paid with an outstanding balance of N267 million. He stated that one of the vehicles, a Toyota Jeep purchased at the rate of N8 million, which has not been paid is presently in possession of the former chief political adviser to the former governor, Captain Isa Mokwa.
According to him, the executive council has resolved that since the vehicle is still in the possession of Captain Mokwa, the supplier should collect the money from him.
The commissioner stated that the government is also making moves to retrieve a Honda saloon car which was allocated to a former media aide to the former governor.
Usman said the Debt Verification Committee in its report revealed that the state government's verifiable debts stood at N28.6 billion.
Out of this figure, only N8.2 billion was accepted for payment while N13.5 billion claims were rejected.
According to him, about N1.4 billion is the total sum to be recovered from individuals and companies for job not executed, but for which money had been paid by the government.
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The commissioner, who said that the proposed commission of enquiry would soon be inaugurated, emphasised that it is not aimed at witch-hunting anybody.
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