By Dan Ugwu
President Muhammadu Buhari has said there is little to show for over one trillion Naira budgeted for constituency projects of the National Assembly members in the last 10 years. The President added that the ICPC report on constituency projects confirmed the fears that people at the grassroots had not benefited from the huge money that the National Assembly members had collected for the projects.
Buhari spoke at the National Summit on Diminishing Corruption in Public Sector, which was organised by the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission, in conjunction with the Office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation in Abuja on Tuesday.
The president has once more struck a right cord, shortly after he lamented the loot of NDDC fund by leaders in the S/South who allegedly usurped these fund to build mansions for themselves, while neglecting the people to whom such funds are allocated. The much we see in the villages are unserviced solar panel street lights, unfinished road constructions and other abandoned projects labeled as NDDC and Constituency projects. If Buhari succeeds in clamping down on these loot and wreckages, there will be hope for the common man in Mbutu.
