School Feeding Programme: ICPC Says N2.6bn Found In Private Accounts

The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission, ICPC, has said that it found N2.67 billion in some private accounts which was meant for the provision of school feeding to federal colleges during the COVID-19 lockdown.

This revelation was made by the Chairman ICPC Bolaji Owasanoye, on Monday at the 2nd National Summit on Diminishing Corruption in Abuja, according to Vanguard.

It was reported in August that the FG said it only spent about N523.3 million on the school feeding program during the lockdown.

“We observed that transfers to sub-TSA were to prevent disbursement from being monitored. Nevertheless, we discovered payments to some federal colleges for school feeding in the sum of N2.67 billion during lockdown when the children were not in school, and some of the money ended up in personal accounts. We have commenced investigations into these finding,”  Owasanoye said.