Rep to Buhari: Beam anti-corruption light on civil service

President Muhammadu Buhari has been advised to beam his anti-corruption fight more closely on the Nigerian civil service.

A member of the House of Representatives, Chika Adamu (APC, Niger) said the anti-corruption drive of the government should be more than recovery of looted funds and assets but the need to create a system whereby public officers would be discouraged from stealing public funds.

Adamu, at a press briefing on Tuesday alleged civil servants saddled with the responsibility of executing the projects of outright stealing, while urging anti-graft agencies to find out the status of the N100b Zonal intervention projects of Federal lawmakers.

According to him, the intervention projects for his Munya/Rafi/Shiroro Federal constituency domiciled at the Federal Ministry of Power, Works and Housing  in the 2016 and 2017 budgets estimated at N6om were grossly flawed.

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According to him, six ‘solar powered’ boreholes sunk in his constituency for the two years at N42m could not  have cost more than N2.5m each.

He said none of the boreholes functioned for more than three weeks.

He however challenged the Ministry on the whereabouts of his constituency projects as the ones claimed by the Ministry were marked Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) projects.

Adamu, who claimed not to be involved in the process of chosing projects or contractors for the intervention projects said, “There is corruption in the system and it is mainly in the civil service.

“It is the civil servants that encourage politicians to commit corruption.

“There is a need for President Buhari to device a system that will discourage the civil servants from stealing.

“I want to know what happened to the Zonal intervention project fund for my constituency because the non-functional boreholes were clearly marked SDG projects”.

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