ICPC Statements On Looted N2.67b Was Twisted And Misinterpreted- FG

BY SEYIFUNMI LUMEKO

The Federal Government has exonerated self from the looted N2.67bn meant for the feeding of schoolchildren during the lockdown, adding that the statement credited to the ICPC was twisted.

The Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development in her reaction on Monday night claimed innocence.

Speaking on behalf of the Ministry, its Special Assistant on Media to the ministry’s minister, Nneka Anibeze, said that the statement by the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission on the said funds was twisted and misinterpreted.

“The Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development hereby inform the public that the Federal Government colleges school feeding in question is different from the Home Grown School Feeding which is one of its Social Investment Programmes,” it said in the statement.

It stated that the school feeding under scrutiny was the feeding of students in Federal Government colleges across the country.

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“It is not under the Federal Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs which only oversees Home Grown School Feeding for children in Primaries one to three in select public schools across the country,” the ministry argued.

It added, “The ministry or the minister does not even handle or disburse funds for Home Grown School Feeding. The money for funding the programme neither passes through the minister nor the ministry.”

It explained that the over N2.5bn which was reportedly misappropriated by a senior civil servant took place in a different ministry and not the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development.