Light-Up project: Hand Maigida over to EFCC, Assembly tells Kwara govt
The Kwara State House of Assembly has called on the State Government to hand over the former governor of Kwara state, AbdulFatah Ahmed to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission to investigate the handling of the Light Up Kwara project.
This was part of its resolutions on the report of an Ad-hoc committee investigating the Light-Kwara project executed by the last administration on Thursday.
The House also directed the state government to hand over the Director General, KP3, Yomi Ogunsola and Investment One that handled the Infrastructure Fund Kwara (IFK), Reccofortezza-A Steven and Rubitec, contractors that handled the Light-Up Kwara Project.
Reading the resolutions of the House, the Speaker, Rt Hon Yakubu Danladi Salihu, said the state government should review the Terms and Conditions of contract for the project and direct the contractors to complete all outstanding work on the project.
They further urged the government to transfer all the activities of Light-Up Kwara project to the supervision and monitoring of the State Ministry of Energy in the interest of accountability and transparency.
The House also resolved that the state government should repeal the Kwara State Bureau of Public, Private Partnership (KP3) Law to allow respective Ministries to take charge of statutory responsibilities handled by KP3.
The Speaker said the executive arm should order the then Director General of KP3 to return to Nigeria to shed light on the grey areas of the project.
The Assembly had on October 3, 2019 set up an Ad-hoc committee to probe the activities of the Light- Up Kwara Project of the immediate past administration in the state.
