The project is the Ife-Ifewara Road in Osun State, awarded in 2010 but not executed.
by SaharaReporters, New York
Apr 19, 2021
A former Deputy Governor of Osun State and two-term Senator, Iyiola Omisore, and a firm, Cartill Construzioni Nigeria Limited, are at the heart of a road project fraud initially billed to cost N650 million.
The project is the Ife-Ifewara Road in Osun State, awarded in 2010 but not executed. Iyiola Omisore
SaharaReporters learnt that Omisore got N151 million of the road project fund from the National Assembly as his constituency project and might have shared it with the firm, while the road project was not executed for years.
By Kingsley Okoye
Abuja,April14,2021 The Ministry of Works and Housing has denied making payments to CARTIL Construction Company as reimbursement for reconstruction of Ife-Ifewara Road, Osun, which was done by Redeemed Christian Church of God(RCCG).
Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola said this on Thursday in Abuja, when he appeared before Senate Committee of Ethics, Privileges and Public Petitions.
An official of the Church, Pastor Niyi Adebanjo, had in a petition to the Senate alleged that the ministry in 2016 and 2019 paid N151million to the company as part payment for the road reconstruction.
Adebanjo had submitted the petition on behalf of the General Overseer of the RCCG, Pastor Enoch Adeboye, and Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, referred the document to the Senate Committee on Ethics, Privileges and Public Petitions.
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The Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG) has tendered an “unreserved” apology to Babatunde Fashola’s Ministry of Works and Housing over a petition by the church accusing the ministry of corruption.
Niyi Adebanjo, who spoke on behalf of the church, said the petition was not targeted at Mr Fashola but was meant to expose some perceived sharp practices involving the Ife-Ifewara road in Osun State.
The church and the ministry were at the Public Hearing of the Senate Committee on Ethics, Privileges and Public Petitions, the ministry of Works and Housing said in a statement Thursday.
The petition
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The Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG) has tendered an “unreserved” apology to Babatunde Fashola’s Ministry of Works and Housing over a petition by the church accusing the ministry of corruption.
Niyi Adebanjo, who spoke on behalf of RCCG, said the petition was not targeted at Fashola but was meant to expose some perceived sharp practices involving the Ife-Ifewara road in Osun State.
The church and the ministry were at the Public Hearing of the Senate Committee on Ethics, Privileges and Public Petitions, the ministry of Works and Housing said in a statement Thursday.
Adebanjo, a pastor in RCCG, said they thought that the Federal Government was to approve another payment for the road which was rehabilitated free by Enoch Adeboye, the church’s General Overseer, as part of the church’s Social Corporate Responsibility.
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