House of Reps probes MDAs expenditure on IT
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by ericjames ochigbo6 in his remarks the speaker of the house mr yakubu dogara mandated the committees to report back within four weeks for further legislative action1 this was sequel to a unanimous adoption of a motion by rep. iboro ekanem pdp-cross river at plenary1 moving the motion earlier ekanem said that the national information technology development agency nitda reported that mdas spent about two billion dollars on it projects annually1 he said that the huge expenditure was without commensurate results in the activities of mdas1 the house of representatives on thursday mandated its committee on public accounts and its finance counterpart to investigate ministries departments and agencies mdas expenditure on information technology it1 he said that a recent investigation carried out by nitda showed that many it projects were riddled with poor conceptualization and without clear sustainability plans1 he said that such situation of led to duplication of projects waste redundancies and a conduit pipe to siphon public funds1 ekanem alleged that the nations financial resources were being hoarded to the benefit of a few individuals thereby damaging the economy and reputation of the country1 according to him if no attention is given to this matter it may pave way for corrupt practices to increase among mdas using lct platform as a ground for official theft breach of trust and misappropriations1 the lawmaker said that it had also been reported that the demand for public funds to pursue it projects had become a means to siphon public funds by corrupt individuals1