Saturday, October 30, 2010
Controversy in Niger over PPP projects
Niger State Governor, Dr. Muazu Babangida Aliyu
A verbal war has emerged between the Niger State government and the Action Congress of Nigeria following the latter‘s allegations that the government had turned all the public private partnership projects into a conduit to siphon money from the state‘s treasury.
Our correspondent learnt that the party raised the alarm following failures of many of the PPP projects which were said to have collapsed after government had doled out huge sums of money to contractors handling them.
The ACN had in a statement made available to our correspondent in Minna expressed concern that the Peoples Democratic Party-led administration in the state had wasted huge resources on such projects without expected results.
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