Nigeria: AC Orders Lawmakers to Return Constituency Fund

25 April 2008

Osogbo — The State Executive Committee of Action Congress (AC), Osun state has instructed the 11 members representing the party at the State House of Assembly to reject the money illegally paid into their personal account for the execution of constituency project in their various constituencies.

The abnormal payment of N5,000,000 was made into the personal accounts of each member in an unclassified manner as first instalment out of the N20m budgeted for constituency projects in each state constituency in the 2008 budget.

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