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.
...
AllAfrica Subscription Content
You must be an allAfrica.com subscriber for full access to certain content.
You have selected an article from the AllAfrica archive, which requires a subscription. You can subscribe by visiting our subscription page. Or for more information about becoming a subscriber, you can read our subscription and contribution overview.
For information about our premium subscription services:
You can also freely access - without a subscription - hundreds of today's top Africa stories and thousands of recent news articles from our home page »
Already a subscriber? Sign in for full access to article