Nigeria: N1 Trillion Wasted On Constituency Projects in 10 Years - Buhari

20 November 2019

Abuja — President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday thumbed down constituency projects, for which the federal government has appropriated N1 trillion in the last 10 years without corresponding impact on the lives of the people.

Buhari said at a national summit on "Diminishing Corruption in the Public Service," organised by the Independent Corrupt Practices and other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) in collaboration with the Office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (OSGF), yesterday in Abuja that a report had confirmed the federal government's worst fear that constituency projects had no trickle-down effects on the common man.

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