Nigeria: Obj Waived Due Process for Power Contracts - Okonjo-Iweala

28 March 2008

FORMER Minister of Finance, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, yesterday told the House of Representatives Committee probing the alleged spending of about $16 billion on the power sector in 10 years without commensurate result that former President Olusegun Obasanjo approved Due Process waiver for the controversial National Integrated Power Plants (NIPP) to fast track payments to contractors.

But her former colleague in the Ministry of Solid Minerals, Dr. Oby Ezekwesili, said the Bureau for Public Procurement (Due Process) knew nothing about the waivers.

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